Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 3 secondary schools. Woodham Academy is the nearest published school at 248 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL5 4AX
Aycliffe South · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Aycliffe South
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL5 4AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 4
- Latitude
- 54.626023
- Longitude
- -1.558880
- British National Grid easting
- 428,579
- British National Grid northing
- 525,742
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Aycliffe South · E05016154
- Parish or community
- E04010634
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105720
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 062C · E01020833
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 062 · E02004343
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 DL5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 3
- 248 m
Woodham Academy
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- 361 m
Vane Road Primary School
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- 541 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Newton Aycliffe
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,967
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 757
- Anti social behaviour 336
- Shoplifting 242
- Criminal damage and arson 190
- Public order 130
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL5 4 residents
- 9,846
Age bands in DL5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
1,657 residents
982 residents
2,348 residents
2,769 residents
2,188 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
3
within 5 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
1.3 km
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
1.4 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
1.4 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Washington Crescent
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
Vane Road - School
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
Vane Road - School
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
Vane Road-Mellanby Crescent
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
Welbury Grove
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 062C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,752 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,967 published events cover 12 months, averaging 163.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 757 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.