Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 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 2RD
North Richmondshire · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Darlington
- 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 2RD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL2
- Postcode sector
- DL2 2
- Latitude
- 54.510079
- Longitude
- -1.638695
- British National Grid easting
- 423,492
- British National Grid northing
- 512,811
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
- E04007499
- Westminster constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton · E14001444
- Output area
- E00141370
- Lower layer super output area
- Richmondshire 001D · E01027759
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Howden Hill Farm, Cleasby Road, Cleasby, Darlington, DL2 2RD | 31 October 2016 | £2,160,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.3 km
Embleton View
Other independent special school
- 2.9 km
High Coniscliffe CofE Primary School
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- 3.1 km
Hummersknott Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 3
- Vehicle crime 2
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- DL2 2 residents
- 7,757
5 female, 7 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 0.2% 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
- 100%
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
DOCTORS LANE SURGERY
ALDBROUGH ST. JOHN, RICHMOND, DL11 7TH
ODS code B82029
3.3 km
CARMEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUNNERY LANE, DARLINGTON, DL3 8SQ
ODS code A83031
4.3 km
MOORLANDS SURGERY
139A WILLOW ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 9JP
ODS code A83010
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Primary School
BCT · Manfield
- 1.0 miles
Primary School
BCT · Manfield
- 1.0 miles
Greencroft
BCT · Cleasby
- 1.0 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Cleasby
- 1.2 miles
East End
BCT · Merrybent
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Richmondshire 001D, 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
18,459 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 2
- 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
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.