Property market
The five-year median is £54,000 from 3 recorded sales in DH4 4SX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sunderland is £143,216 in June 2026, up 4.6% year on year.
DH4 4SX
Herrington & Newbottle · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Houghton Le Spring
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH4 4SX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 4
- Latitude
- 54.858404
- Longitude
- -1.478697
- British National Grid easting
- 433,564
- British National Grid northing
- 551,636
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Herrington & Newbottle · E05016380
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00044271
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 032B · E01008721
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 032 · E02001822
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 DH4
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Green Avenue, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 4SX | 17 April 2026 | £54,000 |
| 12, Green Avenue, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 4SX | 28 March 2024 | £54,000 |
| 1, Green Avenue, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 4SX | 11 March 2022 | £80,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 595 m
Newbottle Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
The Poplars
Other independent special school
- 1.2 km
Shiney Row Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,016
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 317
- Shoplifting 153
- Anti social behaviour 136
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Public order 81
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 29
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- DH4 4 residents
- 8,280
16 female, 13 male
Age bands in DH4 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,398 residents
883 residents
2,056 residents
2,521 residents
1,897 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH4 4 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+
- 78.6%
- 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
865 m
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
1.4 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
1.5 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
1.6 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
2.0 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
4.1 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
4.2 km
HAPPY HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4BY
ODS code A89041
4.7 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
4.8 km
NEW SILKSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SILKSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89032
4.8 km
VILLAGE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89011
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Philadelphia Lane-The Crescent
BCT · Philadelphia
- 0.1 miles
Philadelphia Lane-The Crescent
BCT · Philadelphia
- 0.1 miles
Front Street
BCT · Newbottle
- 0.1 miles
Front Street
BCT · Newbottle
- 0.2 miles
Front Street - Hartoft Close
BCT · Newbottle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 032B, 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
23,012 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. Newbottle Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 595 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,016 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 317 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.