Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 7 secondary schools. New Seaham Academy is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR3 2PZ
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 2PZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR3
- Postcode sector
- SR3 2
- Latitude
- 54.854272
- Longitude
- -1.386821
- British National Grid easting
- 439,466
- British National Grid northing
- 551,224
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Doxford Park · E05016375
- Parish or community
- E04000139
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00044540
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 031A · E01008765
- 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
- 52
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.7 km
New Seaham Academy
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Mill Hill Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 1.8 km
St Paul's CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 197
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 69
- Anti social behaviour 54
- Other theft 24
- Public order 13
- Burglary 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- SR3 2 residents
- 10,263
3 female, 1 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SR3 2 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.
GP practices
11
within 5 km straight-line
SOUTHLANDS MEDICAL GROUP
RYHOPE HEALTH CENTRE, BLACK ROAD, RYHOPE, SUNDERLAND, SR2 0RY
ODS code A89035
2.2 km
NEW SILKSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SILKSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89032
2.3 km
VILLAGE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89011
2.3 km
THE NEW SEAHAM MEDICAL GROUP
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
2.6 km
BYRON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE AVENUE, DENESIDE, SEAHAM, SR7 8LF
ODS code A83075
3.1 km
MARLBOROUGH SURGERY
SEAHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, ST. JOHNS SQUARE, SEAHAM, SR7 7JE
ODS code A83051
3.9 km
HAPPY HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4BY
ODS code A89041
4.1 km
MURTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 20 WOODS TERRACE EAST, MURTON, SEAHAM, SR7 9AB
ODS code A83041
4.2 km
SPRINGWELL MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89027
4.6 km
THE BROADWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89024
4.6 km
VILLETTE SURGERY
SUFFOLK STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR2 8AX
ODS code A89005
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Station
BCT · Seaton
- 0.8 miles
Station
BCT · Seaton
- 0.8 miles
Seaton Lane Inn
BCT · Seaton
- 0.8 miles
Seaton Crescent
BCT · Seaton
- 0.8 miles
Seaton Crescent
BCT · Seaton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 031A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,592 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
197 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 69 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.