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 2350-2400 of 7087 active postcodes in Sunderland
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
NE38 8PB Washington East 54.88394800 -1.50987200
NE38 8PD Washington East 54.88331700 -1.51185900
NE38 8PE Washington South 54.89266100 -1.55084800
NE38 8PF Washington East 54.88317700 -1.51033400
NE38 8PG Washington East 54.88405400 -1.51183500
NE38 8PH Washington East 54.88267800 -1.50929500
NE38 8PQ Washington East 54.88331200 -1.50832100
NE38 8QA Washington East 54.90021300 -1.49258200
NE38 8QB Washington East 54.89388300 -1.50257700
NE38 8QD Washington East 54.89370900 -1.50152200
NE38 8QE Washington East 54.90047600 -1.49314000
NE38 8QF Washington East 54.90153500 -1.49270800
NE38 8QG Washington East 54.90418200 -1.48316100
NE38 8QH Washington East 54.90234900 -1.49400500
NE38 8QJ Washington East 54.90175200 -1.49074000
NE38 8QP Washington East 54.89156100 -1.50154800
NE38 8QR Washington East 54.89169800 -1.50438100
NE38 8QT Washington East 54.90394000 -1.48751600
NE38 8QU Washington East 54.89751200 -1.48906100
NE38 8RA Washington East 54.88243200 -1.51731000
NE38 8RB Washington East 54.88316200 -1.51801800
NE38 8RD Washington East 54.88250000 -1.51872800
NE38 8RE Washington East 54.88269000 -1.51663700
NE38 8RF Washington East 54.88348600 -1.51586300
NE38 8RG Washington East 54.88368100 -1.51729500
NE38 8RH Washington East 54.88480000 -1.51633100
NE38 8RL Washington East 54.88637700 -1.51731000
NE38 8RP Washington East 54.88685900 -1.51431100
NE38 8RQ Washington East 54.88455000 -1.51669200
NE38 8RR Washington East 54.88612100 -1.51397700
NE38 8RS Washington East 54.88701900 -1.51614800
NE38 8RT Washington East 54.88597700 -1.51622300
NE38 8RU Washington East 54.88571400 -1.51791000
NE38 8RW Washington East 54.88731100 -1.51496000
NE38 8RX Washington East 54.88172400 -1.52014000
NE38 8RY Washington East 54.88682200 -1.51852000
NE38 8SA Washington East 54.88781200 -1.51211700
NE38 8SB Washington East 54.88680200 -1.51119400
NE38 8SD Washington East 54.88822000 -1.51081800
NE38 8SE Washington East 54.88736300 -1.51014300
NE38 8SF Washington East 54.88686900 -1.51002400
NE38 8SG Washington East 54.88563500 -1.50949300
NE38 8SH Washington East 54.88535800 -1.51194400
NE38 8SJ Washington East 54.88541400 -1.51711800
NE38 8SL Washington East 54.88285500 -1.51520100
NE38 8SN Washington East 54.88548800 -1.51767900
NE38 8SP Washington East 54.88577300 -1.51686500
NE38 8SQ Washington East 54.88491400 -1.51106100
NE38 8SR Washington East 54.88476200 -1.51361900
NE38 8ST Washington East 54.88572900 -1.51727100
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