Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Chilton Academy is the nearest published school at 507 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL17 8XA
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL17 8XA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1997
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL17
- Postcode sector
- DL17 8
- Latitude
- 54.655282
- Longitude
- -1.553588
- British National Grid easting
- 428,900
- British National Grid northing
- 529,000
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
- E00183246
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 053H · E01034507
- 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
- 24
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 507 m
Chilton Academy
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Aycliffe Secure Centre
Secure units
- 2.6 km
Ferryhill Station Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 682
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 208
- Shoplifting 127
- Criminal damage and arson 77
- Anti social behaviour 73
- Other theft 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL17 8 residents
- 8,515
Age bands in DL17 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.2%
1,366 residents
910 residents
1,839 residents
2,424 residents
2,089 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
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
3.3 km
FERRYHILL AND CHILTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, DURHAM ROAD, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JJ
ODS code A83045
3.9 km
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
4.3 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
RC Church
BCT · Windlestone
- 0.3 miles
RC Church
BCT · Windlestone
- 0.3 miles
New South View
BCT · Windlestone
- 0.3 miles
Albert Street
BCT · Windlestone
- 0.3 miles
New South View
BCT · Windlestone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 053H, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,023 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
682 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 208 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.