Property market
The five-year median is £185,000 from 2 recorded sales in DH4 5QA. 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 5QA
Houghton North · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Houghton Le Spring
- Ward
- Houghton North
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH4 5QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 5
- Latitude
- 54.840897
- Longitude
- -1.484684
- British National Grid easting
- 433,194
- British National Grid northing
- 549,685
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Houghton North · E05016382
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00044442
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 034E · E01008749
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 034 · E02001824
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
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Aireys Close, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 5QA | 31 March 2025 | £190,000 |
| 6, Aireys Close, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 5QA | 10 February 2023 | £180,000 |
| 12, Aireys Close, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 5QA | 11 September 2020 | £165,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 2
- 654 m
Burnside Academy Inspires
Academy converter
- 709 m
Kepier
Academy converter
- 952 m
St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Houghton
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,456
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 446
- Anti social behaviour 205
- Shoplifting 191
- Criminal damage and arson 126
- Burglary 109
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- DH4 5 residents
- 6,824
15 female, 8 male
Age bands in DH4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.3%
1,013 residents
601 residents
1,610 residents
1,796 residents
1,521 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH4 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
8
within 5 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
605 m
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
1.0 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
2.8 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
2.9 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
3.0 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
3.0 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
3.6 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
3.8 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
Burn Park Road-Seaburn Drive
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.2 miles
Dairy Lane
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.2 miles
Burn Park Road-Seaburn Drive
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.2 miles
Dairy Lane-Willow Road
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.2 miles
North View Terrace-Greenbank House
BCT · Fence Houses
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 034E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,019 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 5
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- 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
27 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 2 secondary schools. Burnside Academy Inspires is the nearest published school at 654 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,456 published events cover 12 months, averaging 121.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 446 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.