Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Greenfield Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL5 6QE
Heighington & Coniscliffe · Darlington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newton Aycliffe
- Local authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL5 6QE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 6
- Latitude
- 54.607785
- Longitude
- -1.596573
- British National Grid easting
- 426,157
- British National Grid northing
- 523,698
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
- E00174206
- 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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, South Cottages, School Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6QE | 14 February 2020 | £127,500 |
| 2, South Cottages, School Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6QE | 6 December 2019 | £155,000 |
| 2, South Cottages, School Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6QE | 7 December 2017 | £147,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.4 km
Greenfield Academy
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.6 km
St Francis Horndale CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 797
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 321
- Anti social behaviour 113
- Criminal damage and arson 112
- Public order 59
- Shoplifting 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- DL5 6 residents
- 4,265
3 female, 3 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DL5 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
1.8 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
1.9 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
2.7 km
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Eastfields Road
BCT · School Aycliffe
- 0.1 miles
Eastfields Road
BCT · School Aycliffe
- 0.3 miles
High Barn Road
BCT · School Aycliffe
- 0.3 miles
High Barn Road
BCT · School Aycliffe
- 0.3 miles
High Barn 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.
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
797 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 321 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.