Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 6 secondary schools. Rise Carr College is the nearest published school at 725 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL3 0PW
Brinkburn & Faverdale · Darlington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington
- Postcode district
- DL3
- Postcode sector
- DL3 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL3 0PW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2011
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL3
- Postcode sector
- DL3 0
- Latitude
- 54.543207
- Longitude
- -1.567980
- British National Grid easting
- 428,048
- British National Grid northing
- 516,523
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Darlington · E06000005
- Electoral ward
- Brinkburn & Faverdale · E05010413
- Parish or community
- E43000249
- Westminster constituency
- Darlington · E14001190
- Output area
- E00062133
- Lower layer super output area
- Darlington 001F · E01033482
- Middle layer super output area
- Darlington 001 · E02002559
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 DL3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 6
- 725 m
Rise Carr College
Pupil referral unit
- 1.1 km
Longfield Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Reid Street Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,507
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,231
- Anti social behaviour 580
- Shoplifting 395
- Criminal damage and arson 392
- Public order 233
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL3 0 residents
- 14,168
Age bands in DL3 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.9%
2,489 residents
1,589 residents
3,590 residents
4,279 residents
2,612 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
DENMARK STREET SURGERY
DENMARK STREET, DARLINGTON, DL3 0PD
ODS code A83047
1.1 km
MOORLANDS SURGERY
139A WILLOW ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 9JP
ODS code A83010
1.2 km
ORCHARD COURT SURGERY
ORCHARD COURT, ORCHARD ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 6HZ
ODS code A83006
1.2 km
CARMEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUNNERY LANE, DARLINGTON, DL3 8SQ
ODS code A83031
1.9 km
BLACKETTS MEDICAL PRACTICE
63-65 BONDGATE, DARLINGTON, DL3 7JR
ODS code A83034
1.9 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
PARK PLACE, DARLINGTON, DL1 5LW
ODS code A83641
2.5 km
CLIFTON COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 5JN
ODS code A83040
2.7 km
WHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WHINBUSH WAY, DARLINGTON, DL1 3RT
ODS code A83005
2.8 km
NEASHAM ROAD SURGERY
186 NEASHAM ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 4YL
ODS code A83013
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Arriva Depot
BCT · Faverdale
- 0.2 miles
Arriva Depot
BCT · Faverdale
- 0.3 miles
Aldi Distribution Centre
BCT · Faverdale
- 0.3 miles
Auckland Avenue
BCT · Brinkburn
- 0.3 miles
Aldi Distribution Centre
BCT · Faverdale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Darlington 001F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,312 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
3,507 published events cover 12 months, averaging 292.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,231 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.