Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 5 secondary schools. Woodlea Primary School is the nearest published school at 678 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH4 6DF
Penshaw & Shiney Row · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Penshaw & Shiney Row
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH4 6DF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 6
- Latitude
- 54.851466
- Longitude
- -1.506541
- British National Grid easting
- 431,782
- British National Grid northing
- 550,851
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Penshaw & Shiney Row · E05016387
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00182884
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 030G · E01034519
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 030 · E02001820
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 5
- 678 m
Woodlea Primary School
Academy converter
- 816 m
Bournmoor Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Dubmire Primary
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 849
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 307
- Anti social behaviour 160
- Criminal damage and arson 99
- Burglary 67
- Vehicle crime 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH4 6 residents
- 10,516
Age bands in DH4 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
1,831 residents
1,114 residents
2,770 residents
2,871 residents
1,961 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
1.7 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
1.9 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
1.9 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
2.2 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
2.7 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
2.8 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
3.7 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
4.1 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
4.3 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
4.4 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.5 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Aged Miners Homes
BCT · New Lambton
- 0.3 miles
Aged Miners Homes
BCT · New Lambton
- 0.3 miles
Fence Houses Avenue Vivian
BCT · Fence Houses
- 0.3 miles
War Memorial - Bingo Hall
BCT · New Lambton
- 0.3 miles
War Memorial - Bingo Hall
BCT · New Lambton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 030G, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,747 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
849 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 307 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.