Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Walworth School is the nearest published school at 619 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL5 4PH
Aycliffe North & Middridge · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 4PH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 4
- Latitude
- 54.631140
- Longitude
- -1.587931
- British National Grid easting
- 426,700
- British National Grid northing
- 526,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Aycliffe North & Middridge · E05016153
- Parish or community
- E04010634
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105638
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 060B · E01020814
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 060 · E02004341
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
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 619 m
Walworth School
Community special school
- 894 m
Byerley Park Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,968
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 802
- Anti social behaviour 314
- Criminal damage and arson 222
- Shoplifting 136
- Public order 131
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
524 m
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
1.6 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
1.8 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Cobblers Hall
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.0 miles
Cobblers Hall
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.1 miles
Bluebell Way-Eade Close
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.1 miles
Bluebell Way-Eade Close
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
Bluebell Way - Alverton Drive
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 060B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,856 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
1,968 published events cover 12 months, averaging 164 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 802 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.