Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 3 secondary schools. Forest Park School is the nearest published school at 792 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL5 6EX
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL5 6EX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 6
- Latitude
- 54.608587
- Longitude
- -1.563387
- British National Grid easting
- 428,300
- British National Grid northing
- 523,800
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
- E00105686
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 063B · E01020826
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 063 · E02004344
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
- 17
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 3
- 792 m
Forest Park School
Other independent special school
- 1.1 km
Sugar Hill Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Aycliffe Village Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,356
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 448
- Anti social behaviour 248
- Shoplifting 192
- Criminal damage and arson 131
- Public order 87
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL5 6 residents
- 4,265
Age bands in DL5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.7%
657 residents
408 residents
815 residents
1,347 residents
1,116 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 straight-line
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
1.1 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
2.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
North East Gate
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
North East Gate
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
North East Gate
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
- 0.2 miles
Durham Way North
BCT · Aycliffe Industrial Estate
- 0.2 miles
Groat Avenue
BCT · Newton Aycliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 063B, 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
8,606 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,356 published events cover 12 months, averaging 113 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 448 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.