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 850-900 of 7087 active postcodes in Sunderland
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
DH5 0GW Hetton 54.81231100 -1.43992400
DH5 0GX Hetton 54.81266800 -1.43942100
DH5 0GY Hetton 54.81343700 -1.43872500
DH5 0GZ Hetton 54.81295100 -1.43843700
DH5 0HA Hetton 54.81338800 -1.44772300
DH5 0HB Hetton 54.81139600 -1.44837200
DH5 0HD Hetton 54.81280500 -1.44787100
DH5 0HE Hetton 54.81204500 -1.44481600
DH5 0HF Hetton 54.81252200 -1.44490300
DH5 0HG Hetton 54.81200400 -1.44375800
DH5 0HH Hetton 54.81130600 -1.44225900
DH5 0HJ Hetton 54.81113900 -1.44325700
DH5 0HL Hetton 54.81517200 -1.44069600
DH5 0HN Hetton 54.81064000 -1.44223700
DH5 0HP Hetton 54.81081500 -1.44111400
DH5 0HQ Hetton 54.81208800 -1.44240300
DH5 0HR Hetton 54.81157000 -1.44118100
DH5 0HS Hetton 54.81262300 -1.44140000
DH5 0HT Hetton 54.81434900 -1.44167200
DH5 0HU Hetton 54.81524600 -1.44315300
DH5 0HW Hetton 54.81028900 -1.43997000
DH5 0HX Hetton 54.81269000 -1.44237900
DH5 0HY Hetton 54.81299600 -1.44245300
DH5 0HZ Hetton 54.81263300 -1.44557000
DH5 0JA Hetton 54.81506000 -1.44373200
DH5 0JE Hetton 54.81105400 -1.44426900
DH5 0JH Hetton 54.81093400 -1.44349300
DH5 0JJ Hetton 54.81017500 -1.44258500
DH5 0JL Hetton 54.81042500 -1.44230200
DH5 0JN Hetton 54.80937100 -1.43973400
DH5 0JP Hetton 54.80724100 -1.43402200
DH5 0JQ Hetton 54.81042100 -1.44332900
DH5 0JR Hetton 54.80930200 -1.43826900
DH5 0JS Hetton 54.80836500 -1.43601300
DH5 0JT Hetton 54.80729100 -1.43307000
DH5 0JU Hetton 54.80937800 -1.44114700
DH5 0JW Hetton 54.80849700 -1.43741200
DH5 0JX Hetton 54.80932600 -1.44161700
DH5 0JY Hetton 54.80876400 -1.44066000
DH5 0JZ Hetton 54.80817400 -1.44124400
DH5 0LA Hetton 54.80767100 -1.44338200
DH5 0LB Hetton 54.80774200 -1.44118700
DH5 0LE Hetton 54.80824100 -1.43841100
DH5 0LG Hetton 54.80565500 -1.42898600
DH5 0LN Hetton 54.80630600 -1.42994100
DH5 0LQ Hetton 54.80481700 -1.42861100
DH5 0LT Hetton 54.80859200 -1.43462600
DH5 0LY Hetton 54.80935200 -1.43371300
DH5 0NB Hetton 54.80937700 -1.43528400
DH5 0NE Hetton 54.81029000 -1.43835200
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