Schools
76 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 9 secondary schools. Sunningdale School is the nearest published school at 170 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR3 4AY
Grindon & Thorney Close · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sunderland
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South
- Postcode district
- SR3
- Postcode sector
- SR3 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR3 4AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR3
- Postcode sector
- SR3 4
- Latitude
- 54.888446
- Longitude
- -1.421207
- British National Grid easting
- 437,227
- British National Grid northing
- 555,008
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Grindon & Thorney Close · E05016379
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00044799
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 023C · E01008825
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 023 · E02001813
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Strathmore Square, Sunderland, SR3 4AY | 14 September 2001 | £37,000 |
| 5, Strathmore Square, Sunderland, SR3 4AY | 30 July 1997 | £39,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 76
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 9
- 170 m
Sunningdale School
Community special school
- 226 m
The Link School
Pupil referral unit
- 524 m
Sandhill View Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,666
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,022
- Anti social behaviour 336
- Criminal damage and arson 330
- Shoplifting 274
- Public order 184
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- SR3 4 residents
- 6,879
16 female, 15 male
Age bands in SR3 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.1%
1,281 residents
816 residents
1,722 residents
1,807 residents
1,078 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SR3 4 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
26
within 5 km
SPRINGWELL MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89027
210 m
THE BROADWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89024
210 m
HAPPY HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4BY
ODS code A89041
395 m
CHESTER SURGERY
215 CHESTER ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7TU
ODS code A89623
1.7 km
NEW SILKSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SILKSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89032
2.1 km
VILLAGE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
SILKSWORTH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 2AN
ODS code A89011
2.1 km
HYLTON MEDICAL GROUP
PALLION H.C, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89031
2.3 km
PALLION FAMILY PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89007
2.3 km
PALLION PRIMARY CARE SERVICES
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code Y01262
2.3 km
WEARSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89006
2.3 km
FORGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE OLD FORGE SURGERY, PALLION PARK, SUNDERLAND, SR4 6QE
ODS code A89020
2.5 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE SOUTH HYLTON SURG
2 UNION STREET, SOUTH HYLTON, SUNDERLAND, SR4 0LS
ODS code A89614
2.5 km
MILLFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
63-83 HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7AF
ODS code A89017
2.6 km
PARK LANE PRACTICE
1-6 CITY GREEN, SUNDERLAND, SR2 7BA
ODS code A89034
2.8 km
CASTLETOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
6 THE BROADWAY, CASTLETOWN, SUNDERLAND, SR5 3EX
ODS code A89036
3.4 km
DEERNESS PARK MEDICAL GROUP
DEERNESS PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, SUFFOLK STREET, HENDON, SUNDERLAND, SR2 8AD
ODS code A89001
3.4 km
THE NEW CITY MEDICAL GROUP
TATHAM STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2QB
ODS code A89013
3.4 km
VILLETTE SURGERY
SUFFOLK STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR2 8AX
ODS code A89005
3.5 km
ASHBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
RIVERVIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BOROUGH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2HJ
ODS code A89018
3.6 km
RIVERVIEW SURGERY
RIVERVIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BOROUGH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2HJ
ODS code A89002
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 26 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
- 0.0 miles
The Prospect
BCT · Barnes Park
- 0.0 miles
Sunningdale Road
BCT · Springwell
- 0.1 miles
Sunningdale Road
BCT · Springwell
- 0.1 miles
The Prospect
BCT · Barnes Park
- 0.1 miles
Springwell Road-Sunningdale Road
BCT · Springwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 023C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,716 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
2,666 published events cover 12 months, averaging 222.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,022 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.