Mainsforth Terrace Sunderland

31 addresses across 2 postcodes (SR2), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38741090.

  • Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2018 the median was £59,999 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 9, D: 10, E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Sunderland, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, and Backhouse Park (13 hectares) is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 21 to 23 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 16 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Villette Surgery, about 80 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 200 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 22% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 175 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
20181£59,999£59,999£59,999
20083£46,000£46,000£52,500
20071£40,000£40,000£40,000
20051£25,000£25,000£25,000
20042£54,475£49,000£59,950
20031£15,000£15,000£15,000
20024£25,725£23,500£36,950
20012£17,250£15,000£19,500
20002£14,000£10,499£17,500
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 May 202544 SR2 8NGTerraced£65,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Feb 202443 SR2 8NGTerraced£40,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Jan 202136 SR2 8NGTerraced£51,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Jul 202048 SR2 8NGTerraced£45,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Jul 201850 SR2 8NGTerraced£59,999
23 Dec 200842 SR2 8NGTerraced£52,500
4 Jul 200851A SR2 8NGFlat or maisonette£46,000Leasehold.
4 Jul 200851B SR2 8NGFlat or maisonette£46,000Leasehold.
22 Sep 200739 SR2 8NGTerraced£40,000
9 May 200543 SR2 8NGTerraced£25,000
25 Jun 200444 SR2 8NGTerraced£59,950
28 May 200438 SR2 8NGTerraced£49,000
29 Dec 200351B SR2 8NGFlat or maisonette£15,000
6 Dec 200247 SR2 8NGTerraced£23,500
29 Nov 200250 SR2 8NGTerraced£27,950
4 Nov 200241 SR2 8NGTerraced£23,500
25 Oct 200238 SR2 8NGTerraced£36,950
16 Nov 200137 SR2 8NGTerraced£19,500
23 Jul 200146 SR2 8NGTerraced£15,000
17 Oct 200036 SR2 8NGTerraced£17,500
30 Aug 200051B SR2 8NGFlat or maisonette£10,499Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

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

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); Bungalow, mid-terrace (7); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1900-1929 (7); 1991-1995 (6); 1983-1990 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (11); rented (social) (7); owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)

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 (100% of about 690 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
SR2 8NGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR2 8NFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 31 addresses are between 21 m and 23 m above sea level (22 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
SR2 8NF100%100%100%0%
SR2 8NG100%100%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 stationsSunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Seaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–256.7 km (4.2 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–2513.4 km (8.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramPark Lane (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Sunderland (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.3 km (0.8 miles)
University (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.7 km (1 mile)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rosalie Terrace-Mainsforth Terrace Hendon90 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Sunderland1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays11.8 km (7.3 miles)
Car parksSt Mary's Car Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL25.8 km (16 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Villette Surgery80 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Medichem Limited200 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Laura Street (Dental Surgery)1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalSunderland Eye Infirmary1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationGillbridge Police Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hendon OFF Licence, Hendon Cashzone410 m (0.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Backhouse Park 13 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,570 m²840 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,860 m²380 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 22 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Mowbray Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 910 m (0.6 miles) north-west. 43 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mowbray ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II910 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Monkwearmouth Anglo-Saxon monastery and medieval prioryScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Roker ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II3 km (1.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Building HillHill790 m (0.5 miles) west
North Half Tide BasinTidal water1.7 km (1 mile) north
North Tidal BasinTidal water1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Polka HoleWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Thirlwell BankCliff or slope2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Gilleylaw PlantationWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-west

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)10.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 59150
Under 551531

16 of the street's 31 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), 3 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
Valley Road AcademyPrimary2–11270 m No published inspection
Hudson Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Southmoor AcademySecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Grangetown Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Aidan's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Hill View Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thornhill AcademySecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hill View Infant AcademyPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Dame Dorothy Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Medichem SR2 8PBRetailers - other100 mExempt
Delan Bakery SR2 8JXRetailers - other120 m4 Good23 Jan 2025
Gills Express SR2 8LTRetailers - other150 m5 Very good5 Feb 2020
Hendon Fry House SR2 8LUTakeaway/sandwich shop170 mAwaiting inspection
Fletchers SR2 8JYRetailers - other190 m5 Very good6 Mar 2020
Three13 Training SR2 8BDOther catering premises280 mAwaiting inspection
Silver Star SR2 8BDTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good23 Oct 2024
Top Taste SR2 8RHTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good3 Jun 2025
Medichem SR2 8ABRetailers - other370 mExempt
Massbe Farm Food Limited SR2 8RHRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)1 Major improvement necessary29 Jul 2026
Gills Mini Market SR2 8BGRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jun 2019
Meera's Cafe SR2 8RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Oct 2024
Muller SR2 8RNManufacturers/packers440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Feb 2025
Ashwood Court SR2 8JZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Nov 2025
Dali SR2 8RNRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)Unknown8 Apr 2026

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.

175 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences66
Other theft21
Criminal damage and arson20
Public order16
Burglary13
Anti-social behaviour11
Drugs9
Other crime5
Possession of weapons3
Vehicle crime3
Theft from the person3
Bicycle theft2
Shoplifting2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Barnabas Way (32); On or near Athol Road (29); On or near Mainsforth Terrace West (15); On or near Tower Street (14); On or near Noble Terrace (10).

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: 199 residents in 101 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 age3840
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)22%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented42%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work36%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)17%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)16%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%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)22%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

Barnabas Place · Tower Street · Lewis Crescent · St Barnabas Way · Teasdale Street · Rosalie Terrace · Ridley Terrace · Noble Terrace · Rosalie Terrace · Mainsforth Terrace West · Noble Street · Tower Street West

All the streets in SR2 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.