Property market
The five-year median is £7,000,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH4 5RA. 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 5RA
Houghton South & Hetton Downs · 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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH4 5RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2007
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 5
- Latitude
- 54.832603
- Longitude
- -1.482626
- British National Grid easting
- 433,333
- British National Grid northing
- 548,763
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Houghton South & Hetton Downs · E05016383
- Parish or community
- E04000140
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00044422
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 035D · E01008747
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 035 · E02001825
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Chase House, 4, Mandarin Road, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 5RA | 23 March 2022 | £7,000,000 |
| The Ventner Building, 3, Mandarin Road, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 5RA | 20 May 2016 | £834,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 2
- 722 m
St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Houghton
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Kepier
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
East Rainton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,060
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 345
- Shoplifting 141
- Anti social behaviour 132
- Criminal damage and arson 84
- Burglary 82
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH4 5 residents
- 6,824
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
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
1.4 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
1.4 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
2.3 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
2.8 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
3.7 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
3.9 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
3.9 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rainton Bridge Ind Est D
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.1 miles
Rainton Bridge Industrial Est
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.1 miles
Rainton Meadows
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.2 miles
Rainton Bridge Ind Est C
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.2 miles
Rainton Bridge Industrial Est
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 035D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,582 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 8
- 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. St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Houghton is the nearest published school at 722 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,060 published events cover 12 months, averaging 88.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 345 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.