Schools
49 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 6 secondary schools. Fatfield Academy is the nearest published school at 666 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH4 7QA
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 7QA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH4
- Postcode sector
- DH4 7
- Latitude
- 54.878008
- Longitude
- -1.516846
- British National Grid easting
- 431,100
- British National Grid northing
- 553,800
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
- E00044683
- 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
- 49
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 6
- 666 m
Fatfield Academy
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- 1.1 km
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington
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- 1.4 km
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School, Penshaw
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 477
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 166
- Anti social behaviour 85
- Criminal damage and arson 38
- Other crime 36
- Public order 33
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
15
within 5 km straight-line
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
992 m
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
1.8 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
2.0 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
2.5 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
2.5 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
2.6 km
CONCORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89022
4.0 km
NEW WASHINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89026
4.0 km
THE STEPHENSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89010
4.0 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
4.1 km
BRIDGE END SURGERY
BRIDGE END, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3SL
ODS code A83009
4.2 km
MIDDLE CHARE MEDICAL GROUP
MIDDLE CHARE SURGERY, MIDDLE CHARE, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 3QD
ODS code A83028
4.4 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
4.4 km
GREAT LUMLEY SURGERY
THE SURGERY, FRONT STREET, GREAT LUMLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4LE
ODS code A83029
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Station Road-St Pauls Drive
BCT · Fatfield
- 0.1 miles
Bonemill Lane-James Steel Park
BCT · Fatfield
- 0.1 miles
Station Road-Westerdale
BCT · Fatfield
- 0.1 miles
Bonemill Lane-James Steel Park
BCT · Fatfield
- 0.1 miles
Bonemill Lane - Station Road
BCT · Fatfield
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
477 published events cover 12 months, averaging 39.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 166 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.