Schools
80 open schools are in scope, including 52 primary and 7 secondary schools. Harry Watts Academy is the nearest published school at 329 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR5 4AQ
Redhouse · Sunderland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Redhouse
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South
- Postcode district
- SR5
- Postcode sector
- SR5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR5 4AQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR5
- Postcode sector
- SR5 4
- Latitude
- 54.929737
- Longitude
- -1.442118
- British National Grid easting
- 435,849
- British National Grid northing
- 559,592
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Sunderland · E08000024
- Electoral ward
- Redhouse · E05016388
- Parish or community
- E43000178
- Westminster constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South · E14001567
- Output area
- E00044891
- Lower layer super output area
- Sunderland 003F · E01008841
- Middle layer super output area
- Sunderland 003 · E02001793
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 SR5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 80
- Primary
- 52
- Secondary
- 7
- 329 m
Harry Watts Academy
Free schools special
- 608 m
St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Town End Farm, Sunderland
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Northern Saints Church of England Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,127
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 736
- Shoplifting 310
- Criminal damage and arson 275
- Anti social behaviour 212
- Public order 143
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 1.2
- SR5 4 residents
- 5,988
3 female, 9 male
Age bands in SR5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.5%
1,204 residents
737 residents
1,540 residents
1,667 residents
947 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SR5 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
22
within 5 km
RED HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
RED HOUSE SURGERY, 127 RENFREW ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR5 5PS
ODS code A89008
1.3 km
CASTLETOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
6 THE BROADWAY, CASTLETOWN, SUNDERLAND, SR5 3EX
ODS code A89036
1.9 km
BOLDON GP PRACTICE
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88009
2.5 km
COLLIERY COURT MEDICAL GROUP
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88016
2.5 km
BRIDGE VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SOUTHWICK HEALTH CENTRE, THE GREEN, SOUTHWICK, SUNDERLAND, SR5 2LT
ODS code A89019
2.8 km
SUNDERLAND GP ALLIANCE SOUTH HYLTON SURG
2 UNION STREET, SOUTH HYLTON, SUNDERLAND, SR4 0LS
ODS code A89614
2.9 km
FORGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE OLD FORGE SURGERY, PALLION PARK, SUNDERLAND, SR4 6QE
ODS code A89020
2.9 km
HYLTON MEDICAL GROUP
PALLION H.C, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89031
3.0 km
PALLION FAMILY PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89007
3.0 km
PALLION PRIMARY CARE SERVICES
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code Y01262
3.0 km
WEARSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89006
3.0 km
FULWELL MEDICAL CENTRE,
EBDON LANE, SUNDERLAND, SR6 8DZ
ODS code A89015
3.8 km
MILLFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
63-83 HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7AF
ODS code A89017
3.9 km
CHESTER SURGERY
215 CHESTER ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7TU
ODS code A89623
3.9 km
MONKWEARMOUTH HEALTH CENTRE
DUNDAS STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0AB
ODS code A89040
4.3 km
ST BEDE MEDICAL CENTRE
LOWER DUNDAS STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0QQ
ODS code A89016
4.5 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
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
STANLEY STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 0BX
ODS code A88006
4.8 km
WENLOCK ROAD SURGERY
171 WENLOCK ROAD, SIMONSIDE, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 9BP
ODS code A88005
4.8 km
Showing 20 of 22 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Kingsway Road-Kidd Square
BCT · Downhill
- 0.0 miles
Ravenswood Road-Kidd Square
BCT · Downhill
- 0.1 miles
Ravenswood Road-Rutherford Road
BCT · Downhill
- 0.1 miles
Ramillies Road-Redesdale Road
BCT · Hylton Red House
- 0.2 miles
Downhill Sports Complex
BCT · Downhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sunderland 003F, 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
1,499 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,127 published events cover 12 months, averaging 177.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 736 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.