DL2 3PS

Lower Teesdale · County Durham · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Lower Teesdale
Local authority: County Durham
Constituency: Bishop Auckland
Postcode district: DL2
Postcode sector: DL2 3

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DL12 8XB	730 m
DL2 3PW	828 m
DL11 7BW	927 m
DL2 3PP	931 m
DL11 7BP	972 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DL2 3PS
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: DL
Postcode district: DL2
Postcode sector: DL2 3
Latitude: 54.530738
Longitude: -1.812971
British National Grid easting: 412,202
British National Grid northing: 515,066

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: E04010716
Westminster constituency: Bishop Auckland · E14001101
Output area: E00105882
Lower layer super output area: County Durham 064F · E01020862
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

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 1
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Anti social behaviour 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 5
Postcode households: 1
Residents per household: 5.0
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%

This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL2 3 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+: 100%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 100%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 100%
Gigabit-capable: 100%

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.

Nearby transport

Four Alls

BCT · Ovington
0.6 miles
Four Alls

BCT · Ovington
0.6 miles
Bus stop

BCT · Wycliffe
0.7 miles
Bus stop

BCT · Wycliffe
0.7 miles
Stubb House Hotel

BCT · Winston
0.8 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 064F, 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

17,531 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 7 of 10
Education and skills: 8 of 10
Health and disability: 7 of 10
Crime: 9 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.

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: 0
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

1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 1 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.