Sunderland

What is it like to live in Sunderland?

Homes sold for a typical £147,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. 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 48 primary schools, 11 secondary schools and 3 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 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.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Sunderland?

Homes in Sunderland sold for a typical £147,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,419 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £150,000 from 1,809 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £282,500 147 sales
• Semi-detached £162,000 625 sales
• Terraced £130,000 533 sales
• Flat or maisonette £77,000 114 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole SR5 district, Sunderland's main postcode district: a typical £127,750.

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 October 2026.

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 September 2025, 65 of the 1,809 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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 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).

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 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.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

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 Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 567 3597 50 mWalk
• Millfield Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 567 9179 950 mWalk
• Hylton Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2024 · Phone 0191 565 8598 1.0 kmWalk
• Pallion Family Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 567 4673 1.0 kmWalk
• Pallion Primary Care Services Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0191 534 7924 1.0 kmWalk

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

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

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.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.