Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 6 secondary schools. Columbia Grange School is the nearest published school at 299 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE38 8JU
Washington East · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Washington East
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South
- Postcode district
- NE38
- Postcode sector
- NE38 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE38 8JU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1983
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE38
- Postcode sector
- NE38 8
- Latitude
- 54.891449
- Longitude
- -1.507331
- British National Grid easting
- 431,700
- British National Grid northing
- 555,300
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
- E00182922
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 017G · E01034516
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 017 · E02001807
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 NE38
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 6
- 299 m
Columbia Grange School
Academy special converter
- 701 m
Biddick Academy
Academy converter
- 810 m
John F Kennedy Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,042
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 381
- Anti social behaviour 166
- Criminal damage and arson 101
- Shoplifting 87
- Burglary 70
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE38 8 residents
- 9,186
Age bands in NE38 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.1%
1,775 residents
909 residents
2,338 residents
2,242 residents
1,717 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+
- 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
GALLERIES MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GALLERIES HEALTH CENTRE, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89012
1.7 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GALLERIES, WASHINGTON CENTRE, WASHINGTON, NE38 7NQ
ODS code A89025
1.7 km
I J HEALTHCARE
3 SWISS COTTAGES, VIGO LANE, WASHINGTON, NE38 9AB
ODS code A89617
1.9 km
CONCORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89022
2.7 km
NEW WASHINGTON MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89026
2.7 km
THE STEPHENSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA ROAD, CONCORD, WASHINGTON, NE37 2PU
ODS code A89010
2.7 km
GRANGEWOOD SURGERY
CHESTER ROAD, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RB
ODS code A89028
2.8 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL GROUP
KELSO GROVE, SHINEY ROW, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4RW
ODS code A89030
2.8 km
RICKLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
OFFICE ROW, RICKLETON, WASHINGTON, NE38 9EH
ODS code A89616
2.9 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
3.3 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE SOUTH HYLTON SURG
2 UNION STREET, SOUTH HYLTON, SUNDERLAND, SR4 0LS
ODS code A89614
4.0 km
CASTLETOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
6 THE BROADWAY, CASTLETOWN, SUNDERLAND, SR5 3EX
ODS code A89036
4.4 km
BIRTLEY MEDICAL GROUP
DURHAM ROAD, BIRTLEY, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2QT
ODS code A85008
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Oxclose Road
BCT · Columbia
- 0.3 miles
Barmston Court
BCT · Columbia
- 0.3 miles
Oxclose Road-Beech Square
BCT · Columbia
- 0.4 miles
Oxclose Road-Beech Square
BCT · Columbia
- 0.4 miles
Fallowfield Way-Farrier Close
BCT · Fatfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 017G, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,545 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,042 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 381 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.