Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 7 secondary schools. Polam Hall School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL3 8FD
Park West · Darlington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Park West
- Local authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington
- Postcode district
- DL3
- Postcode sector
- DL3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL3 8FD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL3
- Postcode sector
- DL3 8
- Latitude
- 54.510054
- Longitude
- -1.570430
- British National Grid easting
- 427,912
- British National Grid northing
- 512,833
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Darlington · E06000005
- Electoral ward
- Park West · E05010426
- Parish or community
- E43000249
- Westminster constituency
- Darlington · E14001190
- Output area
- E00062348
- Lower layer super output area
- Darlington 011E · E01012361
- Middle layer super output area
- Darlington 011 · E02002569
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
- 43
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.2 km
Polam Hall School
Free schools
- 1.2 km
Skerne Park Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 940
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 321
- Anti social behaviour 195
- Criminal damage and arson 89
- Public order 68
- Vehicle crime 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL3 8 residents
- 7,753
Age bands in DL3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.7%
1,081 residents
641 residents
1,223 residents
2,252 residents
2,528 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
10
within 5 km
CLIFTON COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 5JN
ODS code A83040
1.8 km
NEASHAM ROAD SURGERY
186 NEASHAM ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 4YL
ODS code A83013
2.0 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
PARK PLACE, DARLINGTON, DL1 5LW
ODS code A83641
2.0 km
BLACKETTS MEDICAL PRACTICE
63-65 BONDGATE, DARLINGTON, DL3 7JR
ODS code A83034
2.0 km
CARMEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUNNERY LANE, DARLINGTON, DL3 8SQ
ODS code A83031
2.1 km
ORCHARD COURT SURGERY
ORCHARD COURT, ORCHARD ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 6HZ
ODS code A83006
2.5 km
MOORLANDS SURGERY
139A WILLOW ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 9JP
ODS code A83010
2.7 km
DENMARK STREET SURGERY
DENMARK STREET, DARLINGTON, DL3 0PD
ODS code A83047
3.4 km
ROCKLIFFE COURT SURGERY
ROCKLIFFE COURT, HURWORTH PLACE, DARLINGTON, DL2 2DS
ODS code A83048
3.4 km
WHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WHINBUSH WAY, DARLINGTON, DL1 3RT
ODS code A83005
5.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Blackwell Grange Hotel
BCT · Blackwell
- 0.2 miles
Blackwell Grange Hotel
BCT · Blackwell
- 0.2 miles
Blackwell House
BCT · Blackwell
- 0.2 miles
Bland's Corner Roundabout
BCT · Blackwell
- 0.2 miles
Bland's Corner Roundabout
BCT · Blackwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Darlington 011E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,400 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
940 published events cover 12 months, averaging 78.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 321 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.