Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Acre Rigg Academy is the nearest published school at 517 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR8 2EA
Peterlee · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Peterlee
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR8 2EA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2011
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 2
- Latitude
- 54.771106
- Longitude
- -1.351162
- British National Grid easting
- 441,841
- British National Grid northing
- 541,990
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Peterlee · E05016188
- Parish or community
- E04010677
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105216
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 035B · E01020734
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 035 · E02004328
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 SR8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 517 m
Acre Rigg Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 529 m
Acre Rigg Infant School
Community school
- 1.1 km
East Durham College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,463
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 617
- Criminal damage and arson 229
- Anti social behaviour 172
- Public order 97
- Shoplifting 95
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- SR8 2 residents
- 7,780
10 female, 12 male
Age bands in SR8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
1,556 residents
992 residents
2,083 residents
2,160 residents
1,425 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SR8 2 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
WILLIAM BROWN CENTRE
MANOR WAY, PETERLEE, SR8 5TW
ODS code A83012
1.9 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
2.4 km
THE HORDEN GROUP PRACTICE
SEA VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, FOURTH STREET, HORDEN, PETERLEE, SR8 4LD
ODS code A83044
2.6 km
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
2.6 km
BLACKHALL AND PETERLEE PRACTICE
BLACKHALL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, BLACKHALL COLLIERY, BLACKHALL, HARTLEPOOL, TS27 4LQ
ODS code A83007
4.8 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
5.0 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Nottingham Place
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Nottingham Place
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Westmorland Rise
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
York Road - Argus Butterfly
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Westmorland Rise
BCT · Peterlee
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 035B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,434 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Flood risk
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.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,463 published events cover 12 months, averaging 121.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 617 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.