Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. Wyvern Academy is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL2 2NH
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 2NH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL2
- Postcode sector
- DL2 2
- Latitude
- 54.533279
- Longitude
- -1.616732
- British National Grid easting
- 424,900
- British National Grid northing
- 515,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Darlington · E06000005
- Electoral ward
- Heighington & Coniscliffe · E05010419
- Parish or community
- E04000297
- Westminster constituency
- Darlington · E14001190
- Output area
- E00062207
- 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
- 28
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.4 km
Wyvern Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
Embleton View
Other independent special school
- 1.6 km
Marchbank Free School
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 341
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 100
- Anti social behaviour 88
- Criminal damage and arson 45
- Other theft 26
- Shoplifting 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL2 2 residents
- 7,757
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
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
7
within 5 km straight-line
CARMEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUNNERY LANE, DARLINGTON, DL3 8SQ
ODS code A83031
2.5 km
MOORLANDS SURGERY
139A WILLOW ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 9JP
ODS code A83010
2.5 km
ORCHARD COURT SURGERY
ORCHARD COURT, ORCHARD ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 6HZ
ODS code A83006
3.2 km
BLACKETTS MEDICAL PRACTICE
63-65 BONDGATE, DARLINGTON, DL3 7JR
ODS code A83034
3.8 km
DENMARK STREET SURGERY
DENMARK STREET, DARLINGTON, DL3 0PD
ODS code A83047
4.2 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
PARK PLACE, DARLINGTON, DL1 5LW
ODS code A83641
4.5 km
CLIFTON COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 5JN
ODS code A83040
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
East End
BCT · Merrybent
- 0.6 miles
East End
BCT · Merrybent
- 0.7 miles
West End
BCT · Merrybent
- 0.7 miles
West End
BCT · Merrybent
- 0.7 miles
Woburn Avenue
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
341 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 100 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.