Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. Hetton Primary School is the nearest published school at 455 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DH5 0AY
Hetton · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hetton
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South
- Postcode district
- DH5
- Postcode sector
- DH5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH5 0AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH5
- Postcode sector
- DH5 0
- Latitude
- 54.813356
- Longitude
- -1.460527
- British National Grid easting
- 434,769
- British National Grid northing
- 546,632
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Hetton · E05016381
- Parish or community
- E04000140
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00044408
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 036A · E01008743
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 036 · E02001826
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 DH5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 2
- 455 m
Hetton Primary School
Community school
- 529 m
Hetton Academy
Academy converter
- 577 m
Hetton Lyons Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 924
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 347
- Criminal damage and arson 138
- Anti social behaviour 127
- Burglary 60
- Public order 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH5 0 residents
- 7,881
Age bands in DH5 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
1,553 residents
818 residents
2,143 residents
1,963 residents
1,441 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
6
within 5 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
1.5 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
2.9 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
3.2 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
3.6 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
3.7 km
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
5.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Nidderdale Avenue
BCT · Low Moorsley
- 0.1 miles
Moorsley Road-Kirkdale Street
BCT · Low Moorsley
- 0.1 miles
Nidderdale Avenue
BCT · Low Moorsley
- 0.1 miles
Moorsley Road-Kirkdale Street
BCT · Low Moorsley
- 0.2 miles
Moorsley Road-Eskdale Street
BCT · Low Moorsley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 036A, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
677 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
924 published events cover 12 months, averaging 77 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 347 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.