Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ribbon School is the nearest published school at 598 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR7 9TT
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR7 9TT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR7
- Postcode sector
- SR7 9
- Latitude
- 54.818063
- Longitude
- -1.377504
- British National Grid easting
- 440,100
- British National Grid northing
- 547,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Murton · E05016184
- Parish or community
- E04010670
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00171785
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 021D · E01033161
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 021 · E02004323
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
- 20
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 2
- 598 m
Ribbon School
Academy converter
- 943 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton
Voluntary aided school
- 2.1 km
Seaview Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,380
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 429
- Shoplifting 302
- Criminal damage and arson 166
- Anti social behaviour 134
- Public order 75
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR7 9 residents
- 7,257
Age bands in SR7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,247 residents
704 residents
1,857 residents
1,963 residents
1,469 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
393 m
THE NEW SEAHAM MEDICAL GROUP
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
2.0 km
BYRON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE AVENUE, DENESIDE, SEAHAM, SR7 8LF
ODS code A83075
2.8 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
2.9 km
MARLBOROUGH SURGERY
SEAHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, ST. JOHNS SQUARE, SEAHAM, SR7 7JE
ODS code A83051
3.3 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Glebe View - Nursery Sch
BCT · Murton
- 0.2 miles
Glebe View - Nursery Sch
BCT · Murton
- 0.2 miles
Crossings
BCT · Murton
- 0.2 miles
Penryn Avenue
BCT · Murton
- 0.2 miles
Penryn Avenue
BCT · Murton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 021D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,040 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,380 published events cover 12 months, averaging 115 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 429 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.