Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 9 secondary schools. New Penshaw Academy is the nearest published school at 591 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH4 7PH
Washington South · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Washington South
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH4 7PH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2004
- Terminated
- 1 January 2004
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 7
- Latitude
- 54.876379
- Longitude
- -1.502871
- British National Grid easting
- 431,998
- British National Grid northing
- 553,625
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Washington South · E05016396
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South · E14001567
- Output area
- E00170216
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 025A · E01008799
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 025 · E02001815
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
- 57
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 9
- 591 m
New Penshaw Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 611 m
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School, Penshaw
Academy converter
- 745 m
Barnwell Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 937
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 331
- Anti social behaviour 141
- Criminal damage and arson 89
- Shoplifting 82
- Public order 74
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH4 7 residents
- 9,383
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
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
14
within 5 km straight-line
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
1.1 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
1.2 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
1.7 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
1.9 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
2.9 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
3.1 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
3.1 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
3.8 km
CONCORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89022
4.4 km
NEW WASHINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89026
4.4 km
THE STEPHENSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89010
4.4 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
4.4 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE SOUTH HYLTON SURG
2 UNION STREET, SOUTH HYLTON, SUNDERLAND, SR4 0LS
ODS code A89614
4.6 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Station Road-Penshaw Lodge
BCT · Fatfield
- 0.1 miles
Station Road-Gladstone Terrace
BCT · Fatfield
- 0.1 miles
Coxgreen Road
BCT · Barnwell
- 0.1 miles
Langdale Road-Railway Monument
BCT · Barnwell
- 0.1 miles
Station Road-Wensleydale Avenue
BCT · Barnwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 025A, 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
25,671 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
937 published events cover 12 months, averaging 78.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 331 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.