Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 4 secondary schools. West Park Academy is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL2 2LZ
Heighington & Coniscliffe · Darlington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington
- Postcode district
- DL2
- Postcode sector
- DL2 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL2 2LZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL2
- Postcode sector
- DL2 2
- Latitude
- 54.558971
- Longitude
- -1.622197
- British National Grid easting
- 424,531
- British National Grid northing
- 518,257
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Darlington · E06000005
- Electoral ward
- Heighington & Coniscliffe · E05010419
- Parish or community
- E04000311
- Westminster constituency
- Darlington · E14001190
- Output area
- E00062212
- Lower layer super output area
- Darlington 001B · E01012334
- Middle layer super output area
- Darlington 001 · E02002559
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 DL2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 4
- 2.7 km
West Park Academy
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Mount Pleasant Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
Wyvern Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- DL2 2 residents
- 7,757
3 female, 5 male
Age bands in DL2 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,436 residents
723 residents
1,826 residents
2,224 residents
1,718 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL2 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 66.7%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
MOORLANDS SURGERY
139A WILLOW ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 9JP
ODS code A83010
4.0 km
CARMEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUNNERY LANE, DARLINGTON, DL3 8SQ
ODS code A83031
4.4 km
ORCHARD COURT SURGERY
ORCHARD COURT, ORCHARD ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 6HZ
ODS code A83006
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Auction Mart
BCT · Burtree Gate
- 1.0 miles
Auction Mart
BCT · Burtree Gate
- 1.0 miles
Burtree Gate
BCT · Burtree Gate
- 1.0 miles
Burtree Gate
BCT · Burtree Gate
- 1.5 miles
Jedburgh Drive
BCT · Branksome
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Darlington 001B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,524 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.