Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Aycliffe Secure Centre is the nearest published school at 669 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL17 0NT
Chilton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chilton
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DL17
- Postcode sector
- DL17 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL17 0NT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL17
- Postcode sector
- DL17 0
- Latitude
- 54.666138
- Longitude
- -1.573624
- British National Grid easting
- 427,600
- British National Grid northing
- 530,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Chilton · E05016165
- Parish or community
- E04010608
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105572
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 053I · E01034508
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 053 · E02004338
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DL17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 669 m
Aycliffe Secure Centre
Secure units
- 1.3 km
Chilton Academy
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Kirk Merrington Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 547
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 162
- Shoplifting 127
- Criminal damage and arson 64
- Anti social behaviour 57
- Other theft 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL17 0 residents
- 5,673
Age bands in DL17 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
900 residents
616 residents
1,441 residents
1,601 residents
1,071 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
FERRYHILL AND CHILTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, DURHAM ROAD, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JJ
ODS code A83045
2.9 km
ST ANDREW'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
SENSIER HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S LANE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6QA
ODS code A83001
4.1 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
4.1 km
BISHOPS CLOSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPENNYMOOR HEALTH CENTRE, BISHOPS CLOSE, SPENNYMOOR, DL16 6ED
ODS code A83052
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dene Bridge Row
BCT · Chilton
- 0.1 miles
Dene Bridge Row
BCT · Chilton
- 0.2 miles
Dene Villas
BCT · Kirk Merrington
- 0.2 miles
Dene Villas
BCT · Kirk Merrington
- 0.4 miles
West Chilton Tce West End
BCT · Chilton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 053I, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,648 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
547 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 162 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.