Schools
81 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 10 secondary schools. Highfield Academy is the nearest published school at 327 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR4 8AD
Pennywell & South Hylton · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South
- Postcode district
- SR4
- Postcode sector
- SR4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR4 8AD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR4
- Postcode sector
- SR4 8
- Latitude
- 54.901488
- Longitude
- -1.429503
- British National Grid easting
- 436,683
- British National Grid northing
- 556,455
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Pennywell & South Hylton · E05016386
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South · E14001295
- Output area
- E00170204
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 012C · E01008812
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 012 · E02001802
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 SR4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 81
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 10
- 327 m
Highfield Academy
Academy converter
- 766 m
Christ's College
Free schools
- 780 m
North View Academy
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,935
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,093
- Criminal damage and arson 339
- Anti social behaviour 334
- Shoplifting 301
- Public order 214
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR4 8 residents
- 8,582
Age bands in SR4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
1,552 residents
909 residents
2,169 residents
2,501 residents
1,708 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
25
within 5 km straight-line
HYLTON MEDICAL GROUP
PALLION H.C, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89031
1.3 km
PALLION FAMILY PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89007
1.3 km
PALLION PRIMARY CARE SERVICES
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code Y01262
1.3 km
WEARSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89006
1.3 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE SOUTH HYLTON SURG
2 UNION STREET, SOUTH HYLTON, SUNDERLAND, SR4 0LS
ODS code A89614
1.3 km
SPRINGWELL MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89027
1.3 km
THE BROADWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPRINGWELL ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4HG
ODS code A89024
1.3 km
FORGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE OLD FORGE SURGERY, PALLION PARK, SUNDERLAND, SR4 6QE
ODS code A89020
1.4 km
CHESTER SURGERY
215 CHESTER ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7TU
ODS code A89623
1.5 km
HAPPY HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR3 4BY
ODS code A89041
1.9 km
CASTLETOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
6 THE BROADWAY, CASTLETOWN, SUNDERLAND, SR5 3EX
ODS code A89036
1.9 km
MILLFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
63-83 HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7AF
ODS code A89017
2.2 km
BRIDGE VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SOUTHWICK HEALTH CENTRE, THE GREEN, SOUTHWICK, SUNDERLAND, SR5 2LT
ODS code A89019
2.7 km
RED HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
RED HOUSE SURGERY, 127 RENFREW ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR5 5PS
ODS code A89008
2.7 km
PARK LANE PRACTICE
1-6 CITY GREEN, SUNDERLAND, SR2 7BA
ODS code A89034
2.9 km
MONKWEARMOUTH HEALTH CENTRE
DUNDAS STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0AB
ODS code A89040
3.3 km
THE NEW CITY MEDICAL GROUP
TATHAM STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2QB
ODS code A89013
3.4 km
ST BEDE MEDICAL CENTRE
LOWER DUNDAS STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0QQ
ODS code A89016
3.6 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 25 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hylton Road-Havelock Hospital
BCT · Hylton Lane Estate
- 0.0 miles
Havelock Council Offices
BCT · Hylton Lane Estate
- 0.1 miles
Havelock Council Offices
BCT · Hylton Lane Estate
- 0.1 miles
Havelock Council Offices
BCT · Hylton Lane Estate
- 0.1 miles
Havelock Council Offices
BCT · Hylton Lane Estate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 012C, 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
2,458 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
2,935 published events cover 12 months, averaging 244.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,093 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.