Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Embleton View is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL2 2QF
North Richmondshire · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- North Richmondshire
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton
- Postcode district
- DL2
- Postcode sector
- DL2 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL2 2QF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2002
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL2
- Postcode sector
- DL2 2
- Latitude
- 54.509975
- Longitude
- -1.602741
- British National Grid easting
- 425,820
- British National Grid northing
- 512,812
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- North Richmondshire · E05014297
- Parish or community
- E04007466
- Westminster constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton · E14001444
- Output area
- E00141289
- Lower layer super output area
- Richmondshire 001A · E01027743
- Middle layer super output area
- Richmondshire 001 · E02005782
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
- 33
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.2 km
Embleton View
Other independent special school
- 1.4 km
Hummersknott Academy
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Carmel College
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 101
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 42
- Anti social behaviour 22
- Other theft 11
- Burglary 7
- Public order 6
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- 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
- 0%
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
9
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
3.2 km
ORCHARD COURT SURGERY
ORCHARD COURT, ORCHARD ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 6HZ
ODS code A83006
3.4 km
BLACKETTS MEDICAL PRACTICE
63-65 BONDGATE, DARLINGTON, DL3 7JR
ODS code A83034
3.4 km
CLIFTON COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 5JN
ODS code A83040
3.7 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
PARK PLACE, DARLINGTON, DL1 5LW
ODS code A83641
3.8 km
NEASHAM ROAD SURGERY
186 NEASHAM ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 4YL
ODS code A83013
4.0 km
DENMARK STREET SURGERY
DENMARK STREET, DARLINGTON, DL3 0PD
ODS code A83047
4.6 km
ROCKLIFFE COURT SURGERY
ROCKLIFFE COURT, HURWORTH PLACE, DARLINGTON, DL2 2DS
ODS code A83048
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Cleasby
- 0.5 miles
Greencroft
BCT · Cleasby
- 0.5 miles
Cleasby Road
BCT · Stapleton
- 0.5 miles
Cleasby Road
BCT · Stapleton
- 0.5 miles
The Bridge Inn
BCT · Stapleton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Richmondshire 001A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,995 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
101 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 42 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.