Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Seascape Primary School is the nearest published school at 464 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR8 5AL
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR8 5AL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 5
- Latitude
- 54.765284
- Longitude
- -1.333289
- British National Grid easting
- 442,997
- British National Grid northing
- 541,353
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
- E00105337
- Lower layer super output area
- County Durham 032E · E01020759
- Middle layer super output area
- County Durham 032 · E02004325
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
- 30
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 464 m
Seascape Primary School
Community school
- 464 m
Seascape Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 971 m
Acre Rigg Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,497
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,342
- Criminal damage and arson 444
- Shoplifting 440
- Anti social behaviour 386
- Public order 219
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 82
- Postcode households
- 37
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SR8 5 residents
- 7,386
41 female, 41 male
Age bands in SR8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
1,428 residents
880 residents
1,871 residents
1,819 residents
1,259 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SR8 5 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
5
within 5 km
WILLIAM BROWN CENTRE
MANOR WAY, PETERLEE, SR8 5TW
ODS code A83012
819 m
THE HORDEN GROUP PRACTICE
SEA VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, FOURTH STREET, HORDEN, PETERLEE, SR8 4LD
ODS code A83044
1.3 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
3.4 km
BLACKHALL AND PETERLEE PRACTICE
BLACKHALL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, BLACKHALL COLLIERY, BLACKHALL, HARTLEPOOL, TS27 4LQ
ODS code A83007
3.5 km
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
3.6 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Edenhill Road - Top
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Edenhill Road - Top
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Robson Avenue
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Robson Avenue
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Edenhill Road - Shops
BCT · Peterlee
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 032E, 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
932 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
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
- 0
- 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
3,497 published events cover 12 months, averaging 291.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,342 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.