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 900-950 of 7087 active postcodes in Sunderland
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
DH5 0NF Hetton 54.80852500 -1.43562200
DH5 0NG Hetton 54.80914800 -1.44012600
DH5 0NH Hetton 54.80800600 -1.43617400
DH5 0NJ Hetton 54.80558100 -1.43070000
DH5 0NP Hetton 54.80519500 -1.43072100
DH5 0NQ Hetton 54.80971000 -1.43719300
DH5 0NR Hetton 54.80444200 -1.42920700
DH5 0NS Hetton 54.80363000 -1.43047900
DH5 0NT Hetton 54.80405900 -1.42999100
DH5 0NU Hetton 54.80393000 -1.43111300
DH5 0NW Hetton 54.80438000 -1.43140200
DH5 0NX Hetton 54.80320500 -1.43364300
DH5 0NY Hetton 54.80591200 -1.43206200
DH5 0NZ Hetton 54.80591200 -1.43206200
DH5 0PA Hetton 54.80424500 -1.43502800
DH5 0PB Hetton 54.80390700 -1.43382000
DH5 0PD Hetton 54.80404800 -1.43341300
DH5 0PE Hetton 54.80452800 -1.43407600
DH5 0PF Hetton 54.80536100 -1.43342600
DH5 0PG Hetton 54.80537500 -1.43460800
DH5 0PH Hetton 54.80641700 -1.43264900
DH5 0PJ Hetton 54.80623800 -1.43462700
DH5 0PL Hetton 54.80691000 -1.43426000
DH5 0PN Hetton 54.80674600 -1.43566300
DH5 0PP Hetton 54.80491900 -1.43699500
DH5 0PQ Hetton 54.80584800 -1.43391700
DH5 0PR Hetton 54.80522200 -1.43850000
DH5 0PS Hetton 54.80502900 -1.43943600
DH5 0PT Hetton 54.80567000 -1.44006500
DH5 0PU Hetton 54.80629100 -1.43842300
DH5 0PW Hetton 54.80618200 -1.43624600
DH5 0PX Hetton 54.80669000 -1.43715400
DH5 0PY Hetton 54.80569600 -1.43787100
DH5 0PZ Hetton 54.80588900 -1.43699700
DH5 0QA Hetton 54.80740100 -1.43548200
DH5 0QB Hetton 54.80673200 -1.43849400
DH5 0QD Hetton 54.80596300 -1.44135200
DH5 0QE Hetton 54.80696700 -1.43877100
DH5 0QF Hetton 54.80653700 -1.44094000
DH5 0QG Hetton 54.80757200 -1.43756500
DH5 0QH Hetton 54.80718300 -1.43693200
DH5 0QR Hetton 54.80401100 -1.44484800
DH5 0QS Hetton 54.80382700 -1.44590800
DH5 0QT Hetton 54.80431800 -1.44501200
DH5 0QU Hetton 54.80454700 -1.44414100
DH5 0QX Hetton 54.80072700 -1.45379100
DH5 0QY Hetton 54.80869100 -1.42513300
DH5 0QZ Hetton 54.81488800 -1.42982000
DH5 0RA Hetton 54.81501100 -1.42924300
DH5 0RF Hetton 54.81704400 -1.44334700
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