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 1950-2000 of 7087 active postcodes in Sunderland
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
NE38 0NB Washington South 54.89626100 -1.55227400
NE38 0ND Washington South 54.89815300 -1.55128600
NE38 0NE Washington South 54.89770100 -1.55044900
NE38 0NF Washington South 54.89601400 -1.55117000
NE38 0NG Washington South 54.89635300 -1.54815700
NE38 0NH Washington South 54.89621800 -1.55049700
NE38 0NJ Washington South 54.89758200 -1.54988900
NE38 0NL Washington South 54.89757100 -1.55183800
NE38 0NN Washington South 54.89731900 -1.55182600
NE38 0NP Washington South 54.89551800 -1.55081600
NE38 0NQ Washington South 54.89703900 -1.54880400
NE38 0NR Washington South 54.89529800 -1.55195700
NE38 0NS Washington South 54.89534700 -1.55298600
NE38 0NT Washington South 54.89459700 -1.54948600
NE38 0NU Washington South 54.89540400 -1.54908700
NE38 0NW Washington South 54.89682800 -1.55020900
NE38 0NX Washington South 54.89460200 -1.55088900
NE38 0PB Washington Central 54.89219100 -1.53808500
NE38 0PD Washington Central 54.89177400 -1.53963300
NE38 0PE Washington Central 54.89263300 -1.53859400
NE38 0PF Washington Central 54.89381700 -1.53808200
NE38 0PG Washington Central 54.89247200 -1.53653800
NE38 0PH Washington Central 54.89121000 -1.53786200
NE38 0PJ Washington Central 54.89060100 -1.53829000
NE38 0PL Washington South 54.89104800 -1.54007800
NE38 0PN Washington Central 54.88940500 -1.53333100
NE38 0PP Washington Central 54.89022000 -1.53732800
NE38 0PQ Washington Central 54.89200500 -1.53657500
NE38 0PR Washington Central 54.89181200 -1.53526700
NE38 0PS Washington Central 54.89110200 -1.53543100
NE38 0PT Washington Central 54.89058800 -1.53495400
NE38 0PU Washington Central 54.88983800 -1.53614700
NE38 0PW Washington Central 54.88943600 -1.53443700
NE38 0PX Washington Central 54.88952600 -1.53914400
NE38 0PY Washington Central 54.88997100 -1.54032400
NE38 0PZ Washington Central 54.88884700 -1.53552000
NE38 0QA Washington Central 54.89038900 -1.53918100
NE38 0QB Washington South 54.88828700 -1.54439600
NE38 0QD Washington South 54.88940700 -1.54584900
NE38 0QE Washington South 54.88962700 -1.54690700
NE38 0QF Washington South 54.89064600 -1.54784600
NE38 0QG Washington South 54.88874300 -1.54613700
NE38 0QJ Washington South 54.89104900 -1.54266600
NE38 0QL Washington South 54.89017800 -1.54281600
NE38 0QN Washington South 54.88924800 -1.54162600
NE38 0QW Washington South 54.88924600 -1.54348100
NE38 0RA Washington Central 54.88897700 -1.53891700
NE38 0RB Washington East 54.88461400 -1.50810300
NE38 0WX Washington West 54.90668200 -1.53247600
NE38 7AB Washington Central 54.90362500 -1.51608700
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