Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 6 secondary schools. Mowden Junior School is the nearest published school at 590 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL3 8UQ
Hummersknott · Darlington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Darlington
- Ward
- Hummersknott
- Local authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington
- Postcode district
- DL3
- Postcode sector
- DL3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL3 8UQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL3
- Postcode sector
- DL3 8
- Latitude
- 54.526892
- Longitude
- -1.598266
- British National Grid easting
- 426,099
- British National Grid northing
- 514,696
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Darlington · E06000005
- Electoral ward
- Hummersknott · E05010420
- Parish or community
- E43000249
- Westminster constituency
- Darlington · E14001190
- Output area
- E00062214
- Lower layer super output area
- Darlington 011A · E01012336
- 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
Property
32 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, West Beck Grove, Darlington, DL3 8UQ | 25 October 2019 | £388,500 |
| 6, West Beck Grove, Darlington, DL3 8UQ | 27 July 2018 | £355,000 |
| 3, West Beck Grove, Darlington, DL3 8UQ | 17 November 2016 | £265,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 6
- 590 m
Mowden Junior School
Academy converter
- 668 m
Hummersknott Academy
Academy converter
- 677 m
Mowden Infant 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 295
- Anti social behaviour 213
- Criminal damage and arson 115
- Shoplifting 83
- Other theft 68
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 44
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- DL3 8 residents
- 7,753
18 female, 26 male
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
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL3 8 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.
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
CARMEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUNNERY LANE, DARLINGTON, DL3 8SQ
ODS code A83031
1.2 km
MOORLANDS SURGERY
139A WILLOW ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 9JP
ODS code A83010
1.6 km
ORCHARD COURT SURGERY
ORCHARD COURT, ORCHARD ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL3 6HZ
ODS code A83006
2.1 km
BLACKETTS MEDICAL PRACTICE
63-65 BONDGATE, DARLINGTON, DL3 7JR
ODS code A83034
2.5 km
CLIFTON COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 5JN
ODS code A83040
3.2 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
PARK PLACE, DARLINGTON, DL1 5LW
ODS code A83641
3.2 km
DENMARK STREET SURGERY
DENMARK STREET, DARLINGTON, DL3 0PD
ODS code A83047
3.3 km
NEASHAM ROAD SURGERY
186 NEASHAM ROAD, DARLINGTON, DL1 4YL
ODS code A83013
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Mowden Shops
BCT · Mowden
- 0.2 miles
Garthorne Avenue
BCT · Mowden
- 0.2 miles
Mowden Shops
BCT · Mowden
- 0.2 miles
Garthorne Avenue
BCT · Mowden
- 0.3 miles
Chester Grove
BCT · Mowden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Darlington 011A, 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
31,869 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- 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
940 published events cover 12 months, averaging 78.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 295 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.