Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 8 secondary schools. Portland Academy is the nearest published school at 443 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR3 2BL
Doxford Park · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Doxford Park
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South
- Postcode district
- SR3
- Postcode sector
- SR3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR3 2BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR3
- Postcode sector
- SR3 2
- Latitude
- 54.857766
- Longitude
- -1.415602
- British National Grid easting
- 437,615
- British National Grid northing
- 551,597
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Doxford Park · E05016375
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00044505
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 031C · E01008770
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 031 · E02001821
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 SR3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 60
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 8
- 443 m
Portland Academy
Academy special converter
- 974 m
Benedict Biscop Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Mill Hill Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 462
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 146
- Anti social behaviour 102
- Shoplifting 52
- Burglary 34
- Criminal damage and arson 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR3 2 residents
- 10,263
Age bands in SR3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,580 residents
1,020 residents
2,490 residents
3,082 residents
2,259 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
14
within 5 km
NEW SILKSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SILKSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89032
1.6 km
VILLAGE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89011
1.6 km
HAPPY HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4BY
ODS code A89041
3.1 km
SOUTHLANDS MEDICAL GROUP
RYHOPE HEALTH CENTRE, BLACK ROAD, RYHOPE, SUNDERLAND, SR2 0RY
ODS code A89035
3.4 km
SPRINGWELL MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89027
3.6 km
THE BROADWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89024
3.6 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
3.8 km
THE NEW SEAHAM MEDICAL GROUP
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
4.1 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
4.2 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
4.3 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
4.4 km
CHESTER SURGERY
215 CHESTER ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7TU
ODS code A89623
4.9 km
BYRON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE AVENUE, DENESIDE, SEAHAM, SR7 8LF
ODS code A83075
4.9 km
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Weymouth Road
BCT · Doxford Park
- 0.3 miles
Weymouth Road-Lacebark
BCT · Doxford Park
- 0.3 miles
Hall Farm Road-Foxlair Close
BCT · Doxford Park
- 0.4 miles
Hall Farm Road-Bishops Way
BCT · Doxford Park
- 0.4 miles
Moorside Road-Midgley Drive
BCT · Doxford Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 031C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,504 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
462 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 146 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.