Postcodes in Sunderland District

Facts Checked By Data Team - Written By Mallika Basu - Reviewed By Jonathan Benton

This article covers information about postcodes in Sunderland's local authority district. Sunderland is an administrative area in Tyne and Wear County. Sunderland district is further divided into 25 Wards.

Below is a complete list of Sunderland Postcodes, it has 7087 active postcodes. Sunderland contains approximately 119757 residential properties with a population of about 275501.

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Sunderland Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 275501
Addresses / Property Count 119757
Active Postcodes 7087
County Tyne and Wear
No Of Wards in Sunderland 25

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. Sunderland is a local authority district in Tyne and Wear county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

Wards in Sunderland

There are 25 wards in the district. Below is a list of the wards. You can click on any ward link to view the postcodes of that ward.

Barnes Castle Copt Hill Doxford Fulwell Hendon Hetton Houghton Millfield Pallion Redhill Ryhope St Anne's St Chad's St Michael's St Peter's Sandhill Shiney Row Silksworth Southwick Washington Central Washington East Washington North Washington South Washington West

View Map Of Sunderland Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Sunderland, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of Sunderland postcodes


showing 800-850 of 7087 active postcodes in Sunderland
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
DH5 0DB Hetton 54.81457500 -1.45379100
DH5 0DE Hetton 54.81353600 -1.45445800
DH5 0DF Hetton 54.81392400 -1.45283500
DH5 0DG Hetton 54.81288300 -1.45308200
DH5 0DH Hetton 54.81333200 -1.45503700
DH5 0DJ Hetton 54.81337900 -1.45553400
DH5 0DL Hetton 54.81466500 -1.45788200
DH5 0DN Hetton 54.81484300 -1.45744400
DH5 0DQ Hetton 54.81217900 -1.45450800
DH5 0DR Hetton 54.81336200 -1.46392100
DH5 0DS Hetton 54.81313600 -1.46361300
DH5 0DT Hetton 54.81238000 -1.46321900
DH5 0DU Hetton 54.81184900 -1.46510800
DH5 0DW Hetton 54.81377000 -1.45669600
DH5 0DX Hetton 54.81117900 -1.46398100
DH5 0DY Hetton 54.81124600 -1.46505400
DH5 0DZ Hetton 54.81111400 -1.46567800
DH5 0EA Hetton 54.81083300 -1.46719100
DH5 0ED Hetton 54.81159500 -1.46669900
DH5 0EE Hetton 54.81404100 -1.45884000
DH5 0EF Hetton 54.81418400 -1.46079800
DH5 0EG Hetton 54.81338200 -1.46238100
DH5 0EH Hetton 54.81267900 -1.46190800
DH5 0EL Hetton 54.81379800 -1.44888400
DH5 0EN Hetton 54.81272300 -1.44949000
DH5 0EP Hetton 54.81182800 -1.45235000
DH5 0EQ Hetton 54.81337700 -1.46110500
DH5 0ER Hetton 54.81078400 -1.45003000
DH5 0ES Hetton 54.81272100 -1.45124800
DH5 0ET Hetton 54.81205600 -1.45110200
DH5 0EU Hetton 54.81174600 -1.45012600
DH5 0EW Hetton 54.81310700 -1.45115000
DH5 0EX Hetton 54.81141900 -1.44742300
DH5 0EY Hetton 54.81075700 -1.44617100
DH5 0EZ Hetton 54.81190800 -1.44620200
DH5 0GA Hetton 54.81410900 -1.44032200
DH5 0GB Hetton 54.81229600 -1.44056200
DH5 0GD Hetton 54.81048800 -1.43436300
DH5 0GE Hetton 54.81116200 -1.43835200
DH5 0GF Hetton 54.81068500 -1.43447200
DH5 0GG Hetton 54.81057100 -1.43674200
DH5 0GH Hetton 54.81085400 -1.43589800
DH5 0GJ Hetton 54.81170300 -1.43867200
DH5 0GL Hetton 54.81122300 -1.43998800
DH5 0GP Hetton 54.81193900 -1.43523000
DH5 0GQ Hetton 54.81071200 -1.43624500
DH5 0GR Hetton 54.81127400 -1.43550600
DH5 0GS Hetton 54.81111900 -1.43679700
DH5 0GT Hetton 54.81225200 -1.43500800
DH5 0GU Hetton 54.81310300 -1.44016200
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