Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Embleton View is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL2 2QX
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 2QX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2004
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL2
- Postcode sector
- DL2 2
- Latitude
- 54.499124
- Longitude
- -1.615507
- British National Grid easting
- 425,000
- British National Grid northing
- 511,600
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
- 21
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.4 km
Embleton View
Other independent special school
- 2.8 km
Hummersknott Academy
Academy converter
- 3.1 km
Clervaux Garden School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Other crime 1
- Other theft 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
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
4.0 km
DOCTORS LANE SURGERY
ALDBROUGH ST. JOHN, RICHMOND, DL11 7TH
ODS code B82029
4.5 km
MOORLANDS SURGERY
139A WILLOW ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 9JP
ODS code A83010
4.6 km
BLACKETTS MEDICAL PRACTICE
63-65 BONDGATE, DARLINGTON, DL3 7JR
ODS code A83034
4.8 km
ORCHARD COURT SURGERY
ORCHARD COURT, ORCHARD ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 6HZ
ODS code A83006
4.9 km
CLIFTON COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 5JN
ODS code A83040
4.9 km
ROCKLIFFE COURT SURGERY
ROCKLIFFE COURT, HURWORTH PLACE, DARLINGTON, DL2 2DS
ODS code A83048
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Cleasby Grange
BCT · Stapleton
- 0.5 miles
Opp Cleasby Grange
BCT · Stapleton
- 0.9 miles
Greencroft
BCT · Cleasby
- 0.9 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Cleasby
- 0.9 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
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.