Schools
65 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 9 secondary schools. Valley Road Academy is the nearest published school at 252 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR2 8NJ
Deptford & Hendon · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Deptford & Hendon
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central
- Postcode district
- SR2
- Postcode sector
- SR2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR2 8NJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR2
- Postcode sector
- SR2 8
- Latitude
- 54.898004
- Longitude
- -1.370034
- British National Grid easting
- 440,500
- British National Grid northing
- 556,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Deptford & Hendon · E05016374
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Sunderland Central · E14001531
- Output area
- E00044350
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 016C · E01008736
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 016 · E02001806
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 SR2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 65
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 9
- 252 m
Valley Road Academy
Academy converter
- 664 m
Hudson Road Primary School
Community school
- 847 m
Ashbrooke School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,796
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,630
- Shoplifting 618
- Anti social behaviour 484
- Criminal damage and arson 396
- Public order 392
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR2 8 residents
- 5,906
Age bands in SR2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.3%
1,095 residents
697 residents
1,638 residents
1,536 residents
899 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
24
within 5 km straight-line
VILLETTE SURGERY
SUFFOLK STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR2 8AX
ODS code A89005
118 m
DEERNESS PARK MEDICAL GROUP
DEERNESS PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, SUFFOLK STREET, HENDON, SUNDERLAND, SR2 8AD
ODS code A89001
279 m
THE NEW CITY MEDICAL GROUP
TATHAM STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2QB
ODS code A89013
831 m
ASHBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
RIVERVIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BOROUGH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2HJ
ODS code A89018
862 m
RIVERVIEW SURGERY
RIVERVIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BOROUGH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2HJ
ODS code A89002
862 m
PARK LANE PRACTICE
1-6 CITY GREEN, SUNDERLAND, SR2 7BA
ODS code A89034
992 m
ST BEDE MEDICAL CENTRE
LOWER DUNDAS STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0QQ
ODS code A89016
1.8 km
MONKWEARMOUTH HEALTH CENTRE
DUNDAS STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0AB
ODS code A89040
1.8 km
MILLFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
63-83 HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7AF
ODS code A89017
1.9 km
CHESTER SURGERY
215 CHESTER ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7TU
ODS code A89623
2.4 km
SOUTHLANDS MEDICAL GROUP
RYHOPE HEALTH CENTRE, BLACK ROAD, RYHOPE, SUNDERLAND, SR2 0RY
ODS code A89035
2.9 km
FORGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE OLD FORGE SURGERY, PALLION PARK, SUNDERLAND, SR4 6QE
ODS code A89020
3.0 km
HYLTON MEDICAL GROUP
PALLION H.C, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89031
3.1 km
PALLION FAMILY PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89007
3.1 km
PALLION PRIMARY CARE SERVICES
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code Y01262
3.1 km
WEARSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89006
3.1 km
BRIDGE VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SOUTHWICK HEALTH CENTRE, THE GREEN, SOUTHWICK, SUNDERLAND, SR5 2LT
ODS code A89019
3.1 km
SPRINGWELL MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89027
3.5 km
THE BROADWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89024
3.5 km
HAPPY HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4BY
ODS code A89041
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 24 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Suffolk Street-Gray Road
BCT · Hendon
- 0.1 miles
Rosalie Terrace-Mainsforth Terrace
BCT · Hendon
- 0.1 miles
Rosalie Terrace-Mainsforth Terrace
BCT · Hendon
- 0.1 miles
Suffolk Street-St Ignatius Close
BCT · Hendon
- 0.1 miles
Rosalie Terrace
BCT · Hendon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 016C, 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
18 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
4,796 published events cover 12 months, averaging 399.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,630 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.