Murton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Seaham Harbour Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Ropery Walk Primary School
Community school
Seaham Trinity Primary School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
2 female, 2 male
1,111 residents
774 residents
1,439 residents
2,127 residents
1,731 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SR7 8 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
SEAHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, ST. JOHNS SQUARE, SEAHAM, SR7 7JE
ODS code A83051
1.9 km
THE AVENUE, DENESIDE, SEAHAM, SR7 8LF
ODS code A83075
2.3 km
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
2.8 km
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
3.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Blair Way
BCT · Dawdon
Blair Way
BCT · Dawdon
Council Offices
BCT · Dawdon
Council Offices
BCT · Dawdon
Mount Stewart Street
BCT · Dawdon
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
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.
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.
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.
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Seaham Harbour Nursery School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
495 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 195 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.