Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 9 secondary schools. Monkwearmouth Academy is the nearest published school at 774 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SR6 7UN
Whitburn & Marsden · South Tyneside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sunderland
- Ward
- Whitburn & Marsden
- Local authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- South Shields
- Postcode district
- SR6
- Postcode sector
- SR6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SR6 7UN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SR
- Postcode district
- SR6
- Postcode sector
- SR6 7
- Latitude
- 54.942345
- Longitude
- -1.393428
- British National Grid easting
- 438,957
- British National Grid northing
- 561,021
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- South Tyneside · E08000023
- Electoral ward
- Whitburn & Marsden · E05016278
- Parish or community
- E43000177
- Westminster constituency
- South Shields · E14001492
- Output area
- E00043764
- Lower layer super output area
- South Tyneside 023C · E01008617
- Middle layer super output area
- South Tyneside 023 · E02001790
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 SR6
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Cottage, Sunderland Road, Sunderland, SR6 7UN | 5 April 2007 | £402,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 9
- 774 m
Monkwearmouth Academy
Academy converter
- 905 m
Seaburn Dene Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Whitburn Village Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 371
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 103
- Shoplifting 65
- Anti social behaviour 65
- Other theft 28
- Criminal damage and arson 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SR6 7 residents
- 9,845
Age bands in SR6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.2%
1,479 residents
821 residents
1,926 residents
2,844 residents
2,780 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- 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
25
within 5 km straight-line
FULWELL MEDICAL CENTRE,
EBDON LANE, SUNDERLAND, SR6 8DZ
ODS code A89015
1.5 km
WHITBURN SURGERY
3 BRYERS STREET, WHITBURN, SUNDERLAND, SR6 7EE
ODS code A88023
2.2 km
BRIDGE VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
SOUTHWICK HEALTH CENTRE, THE GREEN, SOUTHWICK, SUNDERLAND, SR5 2LT
ODS code A89019
2.6 km
RED HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
RED HOUSE SURGERY, 127 RENFREW ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR5 5PS
ODS code A89008
2.7 km
ST BEDE MEDICAL CENTRE
LOWER DUNDAS STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0QQ
ODS code A89016
3.3 km
MONKWEARMOUTH HEALTH CENTRE
DUNDAS STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0AB
ODS code A89040
3.3 km
CENTRAL SURGERY
CLEADON PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 8PS
ODS code A88013
3.5 km
FORGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE OLD FORGE SURGERY, PALLION PARK, SUNDERLAND, SR4 6QE
ODS code A89020
3.8 km
MILLFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
63-83 HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7AF
ODS code A89017
3.9 km
HYLTON MEDICAL GROUP
PALLION H.C, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89031
4.0 km
PALLION FAMILY PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89007
4.0 km
PALLION PRIMARY CARE SERVICES
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code Y01262
4.0 km
WEARSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PALLION HEALTH CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR4 7XF
ODS code A89006
4.0 km
MARSDEN MEDICAL GROUP
MARSDEN ROAD, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 6RE
ODS code A88003
4.3 km
ASHBURN MEDICAL CENTRE
RIVERVIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BOROUGH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2HJ
ODS code A89018
4.3 km
RIVERVIEW SURGERY
RIVERVIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BOROUGH ROAD, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2HJ
ODS code A89002
4.3 km
THE NEW CITY MEDICAL GROUP
TATHAM STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR1 2QB
ODS code A89013
4.4 km
BOLDON GP PRACTICE
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88009
4.4 km
COLLIERY COURT MEDICAL GROUP
GIBSON COURT, BOLDON COLLIERY, NE35 9AN
ODS code A88016
4.4 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
STANLEY STREET, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 0BX
ODS code A88006
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 25 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Academy Of Light
BCT · Cleadon
- 0.1 miles
Academy Of Light
BCT · Cleadon
- 0.2 miles
Sunderland Road-Moor Lane
BCT · Cleadon
- 0.3 miles
Shields Road-Abbatoir
BCT · Seaburn Dene
- 0.3 miles
Sunderland Road-Moor Lane
BCT · Cleadon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Tyneside 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,815 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
- 1
- 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
371 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 103 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.