Property market
The five-year median is £90,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH4 7AP. 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 7AP
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH4 7AP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 7
- Latitude
- 54.868393
- Longitude
- -1.481950
- British National Grid easting
- 433,347
- British National Grid northing
- 552,746
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
- E00044658
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 030E · E01008801
- 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
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Market Crescent, New Herrington, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 7AP | 31 March 2023 | £90,000 |
| 14, Market Crescent, New Herrington, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 7AP | 1 December 2017 | £30,000 |
| 1 - 3, Market Crescent, New Herrington, Houghton Le Spring, DH4 7AP | 26 July 2017 | £131,382 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 5
- 0 m
The Poplars
Other independent special school
- 681 m
Shiney Row Primary School
Community school
- 866 m
Barnwell Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 979
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 355
- Anti social behaviour 127
- Criminal damage and arson 95
- Shoplifting 86
- Public order 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- DH4 7 residents
- 9,383
12 female, 11 male
Age bands in DH4 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,446 residents
949 residents
2,095 residents
2,782 residents
1,676 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH4 7 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
15
within 5 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
313 m
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
885 m
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
1.1 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
2.6 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
3.1 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
3.5 km
HAPPY HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4BY
ODS code A89041
4.2 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
4.4 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE SOUTH HYLTON SURG
2 UNION STREET, SOUTH HYLTON, SUNDERLAND, SR4 0LS
ODS code A89614
4.5 km
SPRINGWELL MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89027
4.5 km
THE BROADWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89024
4.5 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
4.6 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
4.6 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
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
St Aidans Terrace-Nursing Home
BCT · Herrington Burn
- 0.1 miles
St Aidans Terrace-Nursing Home
BCT · Herrington Burn
- 0.1 miles
St Aidans Terrace-Freezemoor Road
BCT · West Herrington
- 0.1 miles
St Aidans Terrace-Freezemoor Road
BCT · West Herrington
- 0.2 miles
Herrington Burn
BCT · Herrington Burn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 030E, 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
27,871 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- 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
48 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Poplars is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
979 published events cover 12 months, averaging 81.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 355 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.