Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Easington Academy is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR8 2RF
Easington & Shotton · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Easington & Shotton
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR8 2RF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 February 2014
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 2
- Latitude
- 54.773536
- Longitude
- -1.362098
- British National Grid easting
- 441,135
- British National Grid northing
- 542,254
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- County Durham · E06000047
- Electoral ward
- Easington & Shotton · E05016174
- Parish or community
- E04010619
- Westminster constituency
- Easington · E14001211
- Output area
- E00105312
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 025D · E01020756
- 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 SR8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.0 km
Easington Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Acre Rigg Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Acre Rigg Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 739
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 311
- Criminal damage and arson 138
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Public order 46
- Other crime 35
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR8 2 residents
- 7,780
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
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
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
1.9 km
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
2.2 km
WILLIAM BROWN CENTRE
MANOR WAY, PETERLEE, SR8 5TW
ODS code A83012
2.6 km
THE HORDEN GROUP PRACTICE
SEA VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, FOURTH STREET, HORDEN, PETERLEE, SR8 4LD
ODS code A83044
3.3 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mill Hill - Weiser
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Mill Hill - Weiser
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.2 miles
Mill Hill - Cummins
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.4 miles
Mill Hill - Linread
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.4 miles
Mill Hill - Linread
BCT · Peterlee
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 025D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,354 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
739 published events cover 12 months, averaging 61.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 311 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.