Property market
The five-year median is £122,500 from 5 recorded sales in DH5 8AL. 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 8AL
Houghton South & Hetton Downs · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Houghton Le Spring
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South
- Postcode district
- DH5
- Postcode sector
- DH5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH5 8AL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH5
- Postcode sector
- DH5 8
- Latitude
- 54.843647
- Longitude
- -1.459983
- British National Grid easting
- 434,778
- British National Grid northing
- 550,003
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Houghton South & Hetton Downs · E05016383
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00044252
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 032A · E01008720
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 032 · E02001822
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
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, The Green, Houghton Le Spring, DH5 8AL | 19 December 2025 | £150,000 |
| 1, The Green, Houghton Le Spring, DH5 8AL | 6 December 2024 | £145,000 |
| 29, The Green, Houghton Le Spring, DH5 8AL | 10 May 2024 | £122,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 3
- 346 m
Houghton Le Spring Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 571 m
Gillas Lane Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 572 m
Bernard Gilpin Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,221
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 339
- Shoplifting 175
- Anti social behaviour 167
- Criminal damage and arson 124
- Public order 98
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 68
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- DH5 8 residents
- 6,241
40 female, 28 male
Age bands in DH5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
1,179 residents
609 residents
1,516 residents
1,639 residents
1,272 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH5 8 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
585 m
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
1.2 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
2.2 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
2.9 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
3.4 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
3.6 km
NEW SILKSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SILKSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89032
4.6 km
VILLAGE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89011
4.6 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Seaham Road-Market Place
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.1 miles
Market Place
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.1 miles
Seaham Road-Market Place
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.1 miles
Market Place
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.2 miles
Hall Lane Estate
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 032A, 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
5,723 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
32 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. Houghton Le Spring Nursery School is the nearest published school at 346 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,221 published events cover 12 months, averaging 101.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 339 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.