Sunderland
Sunderland is covered by postcode districts SR1, SR2, SR3, SR4, SR5 and SR6. It is in the Sunderland council area, England.
Every postcode in Sunderland, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 14
- At medium risk at worst: 6
- At low risk at worst: 34
- At very low risk only: 1
- Not on the at-risk list: 4,395
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 4,450 postcodes in Sunderland that ONS places, 14 have a home or business at high risk, 6 are at medium risk at worst, 34 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 4,395 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.9010, longitude -1.4059. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The postcodes at high risk
14 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SR3 3DS, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Sunderland?
Homes sold for a typical £146,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3.9% on the 12 months before. At 3,673 of the 4,307 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 119 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 55 of its 4,450 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes, or more. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Sunderland, 1.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Sunderland?
Homes in Sunderland sold for a typical £146,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,418 sales, down 3.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- 12 months to August 2025
- £152,000
- 12 months to August 2026
- £146,000
▼ down 3.9% on the 12 months before
Across the whole SR5 district, Sunderland's main postcode district: a typical £128,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Sunderland: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Sunderland?
170 of the 4,450 postcodes now in use in Sunderland came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 65 of the 1,817 homes sold in Sunderland were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SR5 district, 0%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Sunderland | Across the SR5 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 4 of 1,418 (Under 1%) | 0 of 192 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 65 of 1,817 (4%) | 0 of 246 (0%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Sunderland?
Ofcom reports on 4,307 of the 4,450 postcodes in Sunderland. At 3,673 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Sunderland at risk of flooding?
55 of the 4,450 postcodes in Sunderland have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 119 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Sunderland?
The open schools at the postcodes in Sunderland (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Barnes Infant Academy550 m 311 pupils, 360 places
- Barnes Junior School550 m 341 pupils, 360 places
- Richard Avenue Primary School750 m 445 pupils, 420 places
- Diamond Hall Infant Academy750 m 314 pupils, 270 places
- Diamond Hall Junior Academy750 m 320 pupils, 360 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland750 m 247 pupils, 310 places
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland900 m 472 pupils, 420 places
- Consilium Evolve950 m
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Sunderland?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Sunderland is Sunderland Rail Station, 1.6 km away in a straight line.
- Sunderland Rail Station Railway station 1.6 kmCycle
- St Peters Rail Station Railway station 1.8 kmCycle
- Seaburn Rail Station Railway station 3.4 kmCycle
- Millfield (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) Underground, metro or tram 700 mWalk
- University (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) Underground, metro or tram 900 mWalk
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Sunderland?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Sunderland, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Chester Surgery50 m
- Millfield Medical Group950 m
- Hylton Medical Group1.0 km
- Pallion Family Practice1.0 km
- Pallion Primary Care Services1.0 km
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Sunderland safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 5,217 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Sunderland over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 549 September 2025
- 526 October 2025
- 494 November 2025
- 500 December 2025
- 172 January 2026
- 285 February 2026
- 420 March 2026
- 382 April 2026
- 457 May 2026
- 478 June 2026
- 457 July 2026
- 497 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 140, other crime 122, robbery 79, theft from the person 49, possession of weapons 38, bicycle theft 33.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Sunderland?
- Council
- Sunderland
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Sunderland Central (2,734), Houghton and Sunderland South (1,164) and Washington and Gateshead South (552)
- Police force area
- Northumbria
- Region
- North East
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Sunderland
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Sunderland about council tax Council tax, on sunderland.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Sunderland
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Sunderland postcodes
4,450 postcodes in use in Sunderland, by district:
Those districts are all in the SR postcode area.
Check a Sunderland postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
Do not know the postcode? What is my postcode?
Places near Sunderland
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Sunderland's £146,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Sunderland
- What is it like to live in Sunderland?
- Homes sold for a typical £146,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3.9% on the 12 months before. At 3,673 of the 4,307 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 119 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 55 of its 4,450 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes, or more. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Sunderland, 1.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Sunderland?
- Sunderland is covered by postcode districts SR1, SR2, SR3, SR4, SR5 and SR6, across 4,450 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Sunderland in?
- Sunderland is in the Sunderland council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Sunderland?
- Homes in Sunderland sold for a typical £146,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,418 sales, down 3.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Sunderland?
- In Sunderland, primary schools at its postcodes include Barnes Infant Academy, Barnes Junior School and Richard Avenue Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Barbara Priestman Academy, St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy and Consilium Evolve. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Sunderland have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Sunderland is Sunderland, 1.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Sunderland?
- Ofcom reports on 4,307 of the 4,450 postcodes in Sunderland. At 3,673 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Sunderland at risk of flooding?
- 55 of the 4,450 postcodes in Sunderland have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 119 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Sunderland?
- 170 of the 4,450 postcodes now in use in Sunderland came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 65 of the 1,817 homes sold in Sunderland were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SR5 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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