Property market
The five-year median is £265,500 from 1 recorded sale in DH5 8LU. 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 8LU
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 8LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH5
- Postcode sector
- DH5 8
- Latitude
- 54.839899
- Longitude
- -1.443855
- British National Grid easting
- 435,817
- British National Grid northing
- 549,594
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
- E00044263
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 034C · E01008716
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 034 · E02001824
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Copt Hill, Houghton Le Spring, DH5 8LU | 28 October 2021 | £265,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 3
- 845 m
Gillas Lane Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Eppleton Academy Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Houghton Le Spring Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 569
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 183
- Anti social behaviour 86
- Criminal damage and arson 75
- Burglary 67
- Public order 51
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH5 8 residents
- 6,241
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
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
1.6 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
1.7 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
2.3 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
3.8 km
NEW SILKSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SILKSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89032
4.2 km
VILLAGE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89011
4.2 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
4.5 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
4.6 km
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
4.7 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Gillas Lane-Golf Course
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.0 miles
Gillas Lane-Golf Course
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.3 miles
Gillas Lane-Copt Hill
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.3 miles
Gillas Lane-Copt Hill
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
- 0.4 miles
Seaham Road-Gillas Lane
BCT · Houghton-le-Spring
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 034C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,981 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
38 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 3 secondary schools. Gillas Lane Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 845 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
569 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 183 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.