Property market
The five-year median is £125,000 from 1 recorded sale in NE37 3LN. 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.
NE37 3LN
Washington East · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Washington
- Ward
- Washington East
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South
- Postcode district
- NE37
- Postcode sector
- NE37 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE37 3LN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE37
- Postcode sector
- NE37 3
- Latitude
- 54.923984
- Longitude
- -1.508510
- British National Grid easting
- 431,599
- British National Grid northing
- 558,920
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Washington East · E05016394
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South · E14001567
- Output area
- E00044950
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 007A · E01008855
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 007 · E02001797
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 NE37
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 15, Barton Close, Washington, NE37 3LN | 28 February 2022 | £125,000 |
| 9, Barton Close, Washington, NE37 3LN | 12 March 2021 | £153,000 |
| 9, Barton Close, Washington, NE37 3LN | 7 April 2017 | £130,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 72
- Primary
- 50
- Secondary
- 11
- 889 m
St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Washington
Academy converter
- 907 m
Marlborough Primary School
Community school
- 984 m
Usworth Colliery Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 979
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 313
- Criminal damage and arson 130
- Anti social behaviour 129
- Shoplifting 94
- Public order 81
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- NE37 3 residents
- 3,721
9 female, 9 male
Age bands in NE37 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.1%
751 residents
497 residents
1,052 residents
973 residents
452 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NE37 3 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
16
within 5 km
CONCORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89022
1.6 km
NEW WASHINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89026
1.6 km
THE STEPHENSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89010
1.6 km
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
3.2 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
3.2 km
LONGRIGG MEDICAL CENTRE
2 LONGRIGG, LEAM LANE ESTATE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 8PH
ODS code A85004
3.3 km
CASTLETOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
6 THE BROADWAY, CASTLETOWN, SUNDERLAND, SR5 3EX
ODS code A89036
3.9 km
WREKENTON MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, WREKENTON, GATESHEAD, NE9 7AD
ODS code A85016
4.0 km
PELAW MEDICAL PRACTICE
7-8 CROXDALE TERRACE, PELAW, GATESHEAD, NE10 0RR
ODS code A85611
4.0 km
BOLDON GP PRACTICE
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88009
4.2 km
COLLIERY COURT MEDICAL GROUP
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88016
4.2 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE SOUTH HYLTON SURG
2 UNION STREET, SOUTH HYLTON, SUNDERLAND, SR4 0LS
ODS code A89614
4.4 km
CROWHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85009
4.7 km
ST. ALBANS MEDICAL GROUP
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85011
4.7 km
BEACON VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
6 BEACON LOUGH ROAD, BEACON LOUGH, GATESHEAD, NE9 6YS
ODS code A85026
5.0 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
5.0 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Stephenson Industrial Estate
BCT · Usworth
- 0.3 miles
Stephenson Industrial Estate
BCT · Usworth
- 0.3 miles
Stephenson Road-Ta Centre
BCT · Usworth
- 0.4 miles
Stephenson Road-Ta Centre
BCT · Usworth
- 0.5 miles
Waterloo Road
BCT · Sulgrave
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 007A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,514 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 3
- 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
72 open schools are in scope, including 50 primary and 11 secondary schools. St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Washington is the nearest published school at 889 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
979 published events cover 12 months, averaging 81.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 313 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.