Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Staindrop Academy is the nearest published school at 113 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL2 3LP
Lower Teesdale · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lower Teesdale
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Postcode district
- DL2
- Postcode sector
- DL2 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL2 3LP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL2
- Postcode sector
- DL2 3
- Latitude
- 54.577079
- Longitude
- -1.810424
- British National Grid easting
- 412,353
- British National Grid northing
- 520,223
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Lower Teesdale · E05016182
- Parish or community
- E04010697
- Westminster constituency
- Bishop Auckland · E14001101
- Output area
- E00105908
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 064H · E01020867
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 064 · E02004345
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
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 113 m
Staindrop Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 916 m
Staindrop CofE (Controlled) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.0 km
Highcroft School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 87
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 35
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Burglary 6
- Public order 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL2 3 residents
- 4,206
Age bands in DL2 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.5%
545 residents
360 residents
669 residents
1,325 residents
1,211 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
WOODVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, COCKFIELD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL13 5AF
ODS code A83032
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Cleatlam Lane outside school
BCT · Staindrop
- 0.1 miles
Sudburn Avenue
BCT · Staindrop
- 0.1 miles
Sudburn Avenue
BCT · Staindrop
- 0.1 miles
Cleatlam Lane End
BCT · Staindrop
- 0.1 miles
Cleatlam Lane End
BCT · Staindrop
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 064H, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,829 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
87 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 35 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.