Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Greenfield Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL5 7JH
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL5 7JH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL5
- Postcode sector
- DL5 7
- Latitude
- 54.621356
- Longitude
- -1.619004
- British National Grid easting
- 424,700
- British National Grid northing
- 525,200
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
- E04010665
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor · E14001382
- Output area
- E00105639
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 060C · E01020815
- 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
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.2 km
Greenfield Academy
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Byerley Park Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
St Francis Horndale CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 793
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 314
- Anti social behaviour 117
- Criminal damage and arson 106
- Other theft 57
- Public order 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL5 7 residents
- 9,208
Age bands in DL5 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
1,738 residents
1,118 residents
2,075 residents
2,397 residents
1,802 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
HALLGARTH SURGERY
CHEAPSIDE, SHILDON, DL4 2HP
ODS code A83008
2.2 km
JUBILEE MEDICAL GROUP
COBBLERS HALL, CARERS WAY, BURN LANE, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 4SE
ODS code A83066
2.7 km
PEASE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PEASE WAY, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5NH
ODS code A83074
2.8 km
BEWICK CRESCENT SURGERY
27 BEWICK CRESCENT, NEWTON AYCLIFFE, DL5 5LH
ODS code A83037
3.1 km
AUCKLAND MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD FIRE HOUSE, WATLING ROAD, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 6RP
ODS code A83021
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Locomotion
BCT · Shildon
- 0.6 miles
Village
BCT · Middridge
- 0.7 miles
Village
BCT · Middridge
- 0.7 miles
Spout Lane-Tynedale Walk
BCT · Shildon
- 0.7 miles
Hilsdon Drive - Spout Lane
BCT · Shildon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 060C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,361 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
793 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 314 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.