Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Easington Academy is the nearest published school at 697 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR8 3UG
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR8 3UG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 3
- Latitude
- 54.775684
- Longitude
- -1.350172
- British National Grid easting
- 441,900
- British National Grid northing
- 542,500
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
- 28
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 697 m
Easington Academy
Academy converter
- 997 m
Acre Rigg Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.0 km
Acre Rigg Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,187
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 539
- Criminal damage and arson 212
- Anti social behaviour 143
- Public order 72
- Other crime 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR8 3 residents
- 7,521
Age bands in SR8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.8%
1,220 residents
753 residents
1,812 residents
2,114 residents
1,643 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
WILLIAM BROWN CENTRE
MANOR WAY, PETERLEE, SR8 5TW
ODS code A83012
2.3 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
2.7 km
THE HORDEN GROUP PRACTICE
SEA VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, FOURTH STREET, HORDEN, PETERLEE, SR8 4LD
ODS code A83044
2.7 km
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
2.9 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Post Box
BCT · Little Thorpe
- 0.2 miles
Post Box
BCT · Little Thorpe
- 0.3 miles
Nottingham Place
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.4 miles
Nottingham Place
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.4 miles
Leicester Walk
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
1,187 published events cover 12 months, averaging 98.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 539 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.