Shildon & Dene Valley · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Timothy Hackworth Primary School
Community school
St John's Church of England Aided Primary School, Shildon
Voluntary aided school
Thornhill Primary School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
1,119 residents
607 residents
1,457 residents
1,446 residents
982 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
1.2 km
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
3.6 km
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
4.0 km
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
4.2 km
29A ESCOMB ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6AB
ODS code A83015
4.3 km
178 NEWGATE STREET, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 7EJ
ODS code A83025
4.5 km
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
4.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Redworth Road
BCT · New Shildon
Redworth Road
BCT · New Shildon
Dabble Duck Industrial Estate West End
BCT · Shildon
All Saints - Dale Road
BCT · Shildon
All Saints - Dale Road
BCT · Shildon
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 059E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,277 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
33 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Timothy Hackworth Primary School is the nearest published school at 709 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,679 published events cover 12 months, averaging 139.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 588 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.