Schools
69 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 9 secondary schools. Portland Academy is the nearest published school at 320 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR3 2RY
Doxford Park · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sunderland
- 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 2RY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 1982
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR3
- Postcode sector
- SR3 2
- Latitude
- 54.864498
- Longitude
- -1.417686
- British National Grid easting
- 437,475
- British National Grid northing
- 552,345
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
- E00044508
- 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
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Vicarsholme Close, Sunderland, SR3 2RY | 19 March 2021 | £239,000 |
| 5, Vicarsholme Close, Sunderland, SR3 2RY | 29 October 2020 | £249,000 |
| 9, Vicarsholme Close, Sunderland, SR3 2RY | 26 October 2020 | £245,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 69
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 9
- 320 m
Portland Academy
Academy special converter
- 517 m
Benedict Biscop Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 772 m
Mill Hill Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,192
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 438
- Anti social behaviour 210
- Criminal damage and arson 106
- Shoplifting 91
- Public order 75
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SR3 2 residents
- 10,263
10 female, 12 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 0.2% 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.
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
21
within 5 km
NEW SILKSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SILKSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89032
984 m
VILLAGE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89011
984 m
HAPPY HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4BY
ODS code A89041
2.3 km
SPRINGWELL MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89027
2.9 km
THE BROADWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89024
2.9 km
SOUTHLANDS MEDICAL GROUP
RYHOPE HEALTH CENTRE, BLACK ROAD, RYHOPE, SUNDERLAND, SR2 0RY
ODS code A89035
3.2 km
HOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP,
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4DN
ODS code A89023
4.1 km
CHESTER SURGERY
215 CHESTER ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7TU
ODS code A89623
4.1 km
HERRINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PHILADELPHIA LANE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4LE
ODS code A89009
4.2 km
KEPIER MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEYBURN GROVE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 5EQ
ODS code A89021
4.5 km
PARK LANE PRACTICE
1-6 CITY GREEN, SUNDERLAND, SR2 7BA
ODS code A89034
4.6 km
THE NEW SEAHAM MEDICAL GROUP
EASTDENE ROAD, EASTLEA, SEAHAM, SR7 8DY
ODS code A83071
4.7 km
HETTON GROUP PRACTICE
FRANCIS WAY, HETTON-LE-HOLE, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH5 9EZ
ODS code A89004
4.8 km
VILLETTE SURGERY
SUFFOLK STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR2 8AX
ODS code A89005
4.8 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE SOUTH HYLTON SURG
2 UNION STREET, SOUTH HYLTON, SUNDERLAND, SR4 0LS
ODS code A89614
4.9 km
DEERNESS PARK MEDICAL GROUP
DEERNESS PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, SUFFOLK STREET, HENDON, SUNDERLAND, SR2 8AD
ODS code A89001
4.9 km
HYLTON MEDICAL GROUP
PALLION H.C, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89031
4.9 km
PALLION FAMILY PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89007
4.9 km
PALLION PRIMARY CARE SERVICES
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code Y01262
4.9 km
WEARSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89006
4.9 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
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
- 0.1 miles
Doxford Park Shops
BCT · Doxford Park
- 0.1 miles
Doxford Park Way
BCT · Doxford Park
- 0.2 miles
Moorside Road-Manningford Drive
BCT · Doxford Park
- 0.2 miles
Moorside Road-Doxford Park Way
BCT · Doxford Park
- 0.2 miles
Mill Hill Road-Baffin Court
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.
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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
1,192 published events cover 12 months, averaging 99.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 438 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.