Property market
The five-year median is £79,950 from 1 recorded sale in DH5 0LT. 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.
DH5 0LT
Hetton · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Houghton Le Spring
- 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 0LT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH5
- Postcode sector
- DH5 0
- Latitude
- 54.808602
- Longitude
- -1.434639
- British National Grid easting
- 436,437
- British National Grid northing
- 546,116
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
- E00044414
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 036D · E01008746
- 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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, The Poplars, Easington Lane, Houghton Le Spring, DH5 0LT | 16 June 2026 | £79,950 |
| 9, The Poplars, Easington Lane, Houghton Le Spring, DH5 0LT | 14 September 2007 | £110,000 |
| 9, The Poplars, Easington Lane, Houghton Le Spring, DH5 0LT | 20 October 2000 | £25,200 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 2
- 179 m
Easington Lane Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Hetton Lyons Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Hetton Lyons Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 797
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 294
- Criminal damage and arson 130
- Anti social behaviour 101
- Other crime 50
- Burglary 49
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- DH5 0 residents
- 7,881
8 female, 8 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH5 0 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
6
within 5 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
1.8 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
2.1 km
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
3.4 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
4.3 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.5 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
4.9 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
Jubilee Square
BCT · Easington Lane
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Easington Lane
- 0.1 miles
Murton Lane-The Lawns
BCT · Easington Lane
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Easington Lane
- 0.1 miles
Murton Lane-The Lawns
BCT · Easington Lane
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 036D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,480 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
- 0
- 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
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 2 secondary schools. Easington Lane Primary School is the nearest published school at 179 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
797 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 294 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.