Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Acre Rigg Academy is the nearest published school at 601 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR8 5AU
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 5AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR8
- Postcode sector
- SR8 5
- Latitude
- 54.770242
- Longitude
- -1.340933
- British National Grid easting
- 442,500
- British National Grid northing
- 541,900
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
- E00105335
- 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
- 601 m
Acre Rigg Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 619 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
- 2,228
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 920
- Criminal damage and arson 317
- Anti social behaviour 271
- Public order 160
- Shoplifting 149
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR8 5 residents
- 7,386
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
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
1.5 km
THE HORDEN GROUP PRACTICE
SEA VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, FOURTH STREET, HORDEN, PETERLEE, SR8 4LD
ODS code A83044
1.9 km
SOUTHDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
FRONT STREET, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LT
ODS code A83619
3.0 km
BEVAN MEDICAL GROUP
BEVAN GROVE, SHOTTON COLLIERY, DURHAM, DH6 2LQ
ODS code A83616
3.2 km
BLACKHALL AND PETERLEE PRACTICE
BLACKHALL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, BLACKHALL COLLIERY, BLACKHALL, HARTLEPOOL, TS27 4LQ
ODS code A83007
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Essington Way - Stephenson Road
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Essington Way - Stephenson Road
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Stephenson Road - Factories
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Northampton Road
BCT · Peterlee
- 0.1 miles
Stephenson Road - Factories
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,228 published events cover 12 months, averaging 185.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 920 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.