Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. UTC South Durham is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL5 6FD
Heighington & Coniscliffe · Darlington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL5 6FD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 6
- Latitude
- 54.598710
- Longitude
- -1.594465
- British National Grid easting
- 426,299
- British National Grid northing
- 522,689
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Darlington · E06000005
- Electoral ward
- Heighington & Coniscliffe · E05010419
- Parish or community
- E04000296
- Westminster constituency
- Darlington · E14001190
- Output area
- E00174202
- Lower layer super output area
- Darlington 001B · E01012334
- Middle layer super output area
- Darlington 001 · E02002559
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
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.1 km
UTC South Durham
University technical college
- 1.6 km
Forest Park School
Other independent special school
- 1.7 km
Heighington Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 86
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 39
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Burglary 7
- Other theft 6
- Vehicle crime 6
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
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
2.5 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
2.6 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Heighington Rail Station
RSE · Aycliffe Industrial Estate
- 0.5 miles
Heighington Rail Station
RLY · Aycliffe Industrial Estate
- 0.5 miles
Heighington Rail Station
RSE · Aycliffe Industrial Estate
- 0.6 miles
High Barn Road
BCT · School Aycliffe
- 0.6 miles
Eastfields Road
BCT · School Aycliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Darlington 001B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,524 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
86 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 39 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.