Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Woodham Academy is the nearest published school at 697 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL5 4WZ
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 4WZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 December 2002
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 4
- Latitude
- 54.628024
- Longitude
- -1.573000
- British National Grid easting
- 427,666
- British National Grid northing
- 525,959
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
- E00105825
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 061D · E01020849
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 061 · E02004342
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
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 697 m
Woodham Academy
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- 732 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Newton Aycliffe
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- 907 m
Woodham Burn Community Primary School and Nursery
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,607
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 988
- Anti social behaviour 458
- Shoplifting 264
- Criminal damage and arson 261
- Public order 173
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
502 m
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
1.1 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
1.2 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Agnew Way-Kings Drive
BCT · Woodham
- 0.1 miles
Agnew Way-Kings Drive
BCT · Woodham
- 0.1 miles
Woodham Way - Brafferton Close
BCT · Woodham
- 0.2 miles
Agnew Way
BCT · Woodham
- 0.2 miles
Agnew Way
BCT · Woodham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 061D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,795 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
2,607 published events cover 12 months, averaging 217.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 988 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.