Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ribbon School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR7 8RJ
Murton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Murton
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- SR7
- Postcode sector
- SR7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR7 8RJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR7
- Postcode sector
- SR7 8
- Latitude
- 54.812550
- Longitude
- -1.354248
- British National Grid easting
- 441,600
- British National Grid northing
- 546,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Murton · E05016184
- Parish or community
- E04010640
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105318
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 025C · E01020754
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 025 · E02004324
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 SR7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.2 km
Ribbon School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Seaview Primary School
Community school
- 2.4 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 303
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 92
- Violence and sexual offences 76
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Other theft 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR7 8 residents
- 7,300
Age bands in SR7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
1,111 residents
774 residents
1,439 residents
2,127 residents
1,731 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
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
1.9 km
THE NEW SEAHAM MEDICAL GROUP
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
2.6 km
BYRON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE AVENUE, DENESIDE, SEAHAM, SR7 8LF
ODS code A83075
2.7 km
MARLBOROUGH SURGERY
SEAHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, ST. JOHNS SQUARE, SEAHAM, SR7 7JE
ODS code A83051
2.9 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Pemberton Arms
BCT · Cold Hesledon
- 0.3 miles
Pemberton Arms
BCT · Cold Hesledon
- 0.4 miles
Waterworks
BCT · Cold Hesledon
- 0.4 miles
Waterworks
BCT · Cold Hesledon
- 0.5 miles
Hawthorn Lane
BCT · Hawthorn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 025C, 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
12,405 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
303 published events cover 12 months, averaging 25.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 92 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.