Property market
The five-year median is £150,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH5 9JT. 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 9JT
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DH5 9JT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2009
- Postcode area
- DH
- Postcode district
- DH5
- Postcode sector
- DH5 9
- Latitude
- 54.817352
- Longitude
- -1.455618
- British National Grid easting
- 435,081
- British National Grid northing
- 547,079
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
- E00044395
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 035E · E01008748
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 035 · E02001825
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fox & Hounds, Hetton Le Hole, Houghton Le Spring, DH5 9JT | 30 September 2024 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 189 m
Hetton Primary School
Community school
- 344 m
Hetton Academy
Academy converter
- 353 m
Hetton Lyons Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 967
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 342
- Anti social behaviour 142
- Criminal damage and arson 138
- Burglary 69
- Public order 65
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DH5 9 residents
- 7,113
Age bands in DH5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
948 residents
668 residents
1,629 residents
2,016 residents
1,798 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 straight-line
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
984 m
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
2.8 km
WEST RAINTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
3.3 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
3.4 km
SILVERDALE FAMILY PRACTICE
SOUTH HETTON HEALTH CTR, FRONT STREET, SOUTH HETTON, DURHAM, DH6 2TH
ODS code A83627
3.5 km
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Hetton-le-Hole
- 0.1 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Hetton-le-Hole
- 0.1 miles
Bedale Street-Allendale Street
BCT · Hetton-le-Hole
- 0.1 miles
Bedale Street-Langdale Street
BCT · Hetton-le-Hole
- 0.1 miles
Springwell Terrace
BCT · Hetton-le-Hole
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 035E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,996 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. Hetton Primary School is the nearest published school at 189 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
967 published events cover 12 months, averaging 80.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 342 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.