Houghton South & Hetton Downs · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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Census 2021
9 female, 15 male
1,179 residents
609 residents
1,516 residents
1,639 residents
1,272 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
646 m
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
1.4 km
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
1.9 km
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
3.1 km
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
3.7 km
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
3.8 km
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.5 km
SILKSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89032
4.6 km
SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89011
4.6 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.
Hall Lane Estate
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
Hall Lane Estate
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
Hall Lane Estate
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
Seaham Road-Market Place
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
Seaham Road-Earsdon Road
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 034A, 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
2,013 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
31 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 3 secondary schools. Gillas Lane Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 314 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,166 published events cover 12 months, averaging 97.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 318 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.