Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Dales School is the nearest published school at 451 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL7 9QL
Morton-on-Swale & Appleton Wiske · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton
- Postcode district
- DL7
- Postcode sector
- DL7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL7 9QL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL7
- Postcode sector
- DL7 9
- Latitude
- 54.324309
- Longitude
- -1.489525
- British National Grid easting
- 433,300
- British National Grid northing
- 492,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Morton-on-Swale & Appleton Wiske · E05014295
- Parish or community
- E04007129
- Westminster constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton · E14001444
- Output area
- E00140550
- Lower layer super output area
- Hambleton 005B · E01027604
- Middle layer super output area
- Hambleton 005 · E02005754
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 DL7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 451 m
The Dales School
Community special school
- 540 m
Ainderby Steeple Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Romanby Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 32
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 22
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Other theft 2
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL7 9 residents
- 4,800
Age bands in DL7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.2%
801 residents
595 residents
1,358 residents
1,250 residents
1,075 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
MAYFORD HOUSE SURGERY
BOROUGHBRIDGE ROAD, NORTHALLERTON, DL7 8AW
ODS code B82075
2.8 km
MOWBRAY HOUSE SURGERY
MALPAS ROAD, NORTHALLERTON, DL7 8FW
ODS code B82050
3.5 km
HEARTBEAT PRIMARY CARE CIC
SUITE 20 & 21 EVOLUTION BUS CTR, UNIT 6 COUNTY BUSINESS PARK, DARLINGTON ROAD, NORTHALLERTON, DL6 2NQ
ODS code Y09077
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Ainderby Steeple Green
BCT · Ainderby Steeple
- 0.0 miles
Hall Cottages
BCT · Ainderby Steeple
- 0.2 miles
The Dales School
BCT · Morton-on-Swale
- 0.4 miles
Cromwell Drive
BCT · Morton-on-Swale
- 0.4 miles
Cromwell Drive
BCT · Morton-on-Swale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hambleton 005B, 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
23,581 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
32 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 22 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.