Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hawes Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL8 3PY
Upper Dales · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Upper Dales
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton
- Postcode district
- DL8
- Postcode sector
- DL8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL8 3PY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL8
- Postcode sector
- DL8 3
- Latitude
- 54.320770
- Longitude
- -2.172155
- British National Grid easting
- 388,900
- British National Grid northing
- 491,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Upper Dales · E05014330
- Parish or community
- E04007490
- Westminster constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton · E14001444
- Output area
- E00141340
- Lower layer super output area
- Richmondshire 005B · E01027753
- Middle layer super output area
- Richmondshire 005 · E02005786
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 DL8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.6 km
Hawes Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 4.7 km
Bainbridge Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL8 3 residents
- 2,734
Age bands in DL8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.4%
338 residents
188 residents
507 residents
979 residents
966 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
CENTRAL DALES PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, THE HOLME, GAYLE, HAWES, DL8 3QR
ODS code B82045
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Sedbusk Lane End
BCT · Sedbusk
- 0.6 miles
Sedbusk Lane End
BCT · Sedbusk
- 1.1 miles
Hall
BCT · Simonstone
- 1.3 miles
New Lane End
BCT · Burtersett
- 1.3 miles
New Lane End
BCT · Burtersett
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Richmondshire 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,658 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.