Alwin Washington, Sunderland

82 addresses across 3 postcodes (NE38), about 300 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38701720.

  • Sales: 82 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £135,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 65 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 2, C: 42, D: 19, E: 1).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Sunderland costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester-Le-Street, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 49 to 51 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 24 of its 82 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rickleton Medical Centre, about 140 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 49 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20263£135,000£128,500£147,000
20241£125,000£125,000£125,000
20231£120,000£120,000£120,000
20223£120,500£120,000£130,000
20212£73,750£65,000£82,500
20201£50,000£50,000£50,000
20192£99,250£85,500£113,000
20182£94,550£80,000£109,100
20171£110,000£110,000£110,000
20161£83,000£83,000£83,000
20153£90,000£87,000£91,500
20142£98,750£97,500£100,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 82)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Jun 202664 NE38 9EWSemi-detached£135,000
29 May 202620 NE38 9ENTerraced£147,000
15 May 202641 NE38 9EWTerraced£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Mar 202632 NE38 9ENTerraced£128,500
14 Jun 202426 NE38 9ENSemi-detached£110,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jun 202465 NE38 9EWTerraced£125,000
24 Feb 20234 NE38 9ELTerraced£120,000
17 Oct 202217 NE38 9ELTerraced£130,000
10 Aug 202244 NE38 9EWTerraced£120,500
29 Apr 202216 NE38 9ELSemi-detached£120,000
10 Mar 202214 NE38 9ELTerraced£135,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Dec 202171 NE38 9EWTerraced£103,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Nov 202150 NE38 9EWFlat or maisonette£65,000Leasehold.
18 Jun 202117 NE38 9ELTerraced£82,500
17 May 202154 NE38 9EWTerraced£30,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Nov 202045 NE38 9EWFlat or maisonette£50,000Leasehold.
6 Nov 202068 NE38 9EWSemi-detached£97,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Dec 201952 NE38 9EWTerraced£113,000
22 Nov 201917 NE38 9ELTerraced£85,500
31 May 201927 NE38 9ENTerraced£77,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Oct 201875 NE38 9EWTerraced£103,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 May 201826 NE38 9ENSemi-detached£80,000
3 May 201877 NE38 9EWTerraced£109,100
9 Jun 201767 NE38 9EWTerraced£110,000
26 Aug 201637 NE38 9ENTerraced£83,000
14 Sep 20159 NE38 9ELTerraced£90,000
16 May 201519 NE38 9ENTerraced£87,000
6 Feb 201538 NE38 9ENTerraced£91,500
31 Oct 201470 NE38 9EWTerraced£100,000
16 May 201427 NE38 9ENTerraced£97,500
9 Dec 201342 NE38 9EWTerraced£103,000
14 Dec 201274 NE38 9EWTerraced£87,000
13 Apr 201267 NE38 9EWTerraced£125,000
18 Mar 201128 NE38 9ENTerraced£97,000
17 Sep 201061 NE38 9EWTerraced£97,000
24 Aug 201076 NE38 9EWTerraced£89,000
13 Aug 201064 NE38 9EWSemi-detached£114,995
15 May 200965 NE38 9EWTerraced£88,000
25 Sep 20089 NE38 9ELTerraced£80,000
6 Jun 200877 NE38 9EWTerraced£115,000
31 Jan 200844 NE38 9EWTerraced£112,000
18 Dec 200728 NE38 9ENTerraced£107,000
31 Oct 200748 NE38 9EWFlat or maisonette£72,000Leasehold.
6 Sep 200771 NE38 9EWTerraced£122,000
8 Aug 20079 NE38 9ELTerraced£70,400
8 Dec 20068 NE38 9ELSemi-detached£92,500
6 Oct 200636 NE38 9ENSemi-detached£119,950
25 Aug 200616 NE38 9ELSemi-detached£110,000
18 Jul 200665 NE38 9EWTerraced£103,000
2 Jun 200644 NE38 9EWTerraced£104,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

65 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (41); Flat (12); House, end-terrace (7). Built: 1976-1982 (35); 1967-1975 (27); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (24); owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (13).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sunderland in 2026-27: Band D £2,197 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,465£1,709£1,953£2,197£2,685£3,174£3,662£4,394

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (97% of about 620 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 13 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NE38 9EWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
NE38 9ENnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 5 unlikely
NE38 9ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 82 addresses are between 49 m and 51 m above sea level (50 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
NE38 9EL100%100%100%0%
NE38 9EN100%91%100%0%
NE38 9EW100%95%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsChester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km (4.9 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–259.7 km (6 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Vigo Lane-Woodlands Surgery Rickleton150 m
Bus or coach stationPark View School - North Lodge Chester-le-Street1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays13.9 km (8.7 miles)
Car parksGalleries Shopping Centre Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rickleton Village Centre200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL19.6 km (12 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rickleton Medical Centre140 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Woodlands Pharmacy190 m
NHS dentistsGalleries Health Centre2.2 km (1.4 miles)
HospitalSpire Washington Hospital710 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationWashington Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesMoto - Washington North - Forecourt, Portobello, Birtley Cashzone1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 640 m²290 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7.6 ha280 m
AllotmentsHarraton Allotments 1,170 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lambton Castle, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.7 km (1 mile) south. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lambton CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) south
Chester New BridgeScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shiphouse WoodWood540 m (0.3 miles) east
New Vigo WoodWood650 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Virginia WaterLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
The BottomsValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Worm HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) east
Dog HoleTidal water2.7 km (1.7 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 59230
Under 555882

24 of the street's 82 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Sunderland: see them on the Sunderland page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Rickleton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11410 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Lambton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Holley Park AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Portobello Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Barley Mow Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Oxclose Community AcademySecondary11–161.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Oxclose Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oxclose Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Lord Lawson of Beamish AcademySecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Fatfield AcademyPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Woodlands Pharmacy NE38 9ETRetailers - other220 mExempt
The Village Store NE38 9ETRetailers - other220 m5 Very good22 Nov 2025
Tyne Pizza NE38 9ETTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m3 Generally satisfactory14 May 2025
Rickleton Primary School NE38 9EZSchool/college/university290 m5 Very good21 Apr 2026
ESS Catering NE37 1PARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good3 Sep 2025
Rickleton Plus NE38 9EZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Jun 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

49 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Anti-social behaviour7
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime4
Public order3
Other theft3
Burglary2
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petteril (19); On or near Alwin (10); On or near Winster (10); On or near Rickleton Way (3); On or near Sheridan Green (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 337 residents in 121 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3640
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Office Row · Winster · Vigo Lane · Petteril · Coquet · Sheridan Green · Wansbeck · Rickleton Village Centre · Hargill Drive · Teviot · The Chase · Eddlestone

All the streets in NE38 and across Sunderland.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.