Parkway Washington, Sunderland

9 addresses across 6 postcodes (NE38), about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 38749690.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Sunderland cost £147,763 in August 2026 (+4.6% on a year); private rents averaged £710 a month.
  • Flood: 7 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: 1 of its postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Calders Site, is 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 8 times (1 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A1231, carries 44,660 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Heworth, about 5.6 km (3.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 490 m (0.3 miles) away, and Albany Park (15 hectares) is about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 64 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Galleries Medical Practice, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 150 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.
  • Road safety: 9 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 3 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

House prices and rents in Sunderland

A typical home in Sunderland cost £147,763 in August 2026, 4.6% more than a year before. That is 18% more than five years earlier and 38% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£261,768
Semi-detached£158,375
Terraced£128,937
Flat or maisonette£82,296
Bought by a first-time buyer£131,489

Private renters in Sunderland paid £710 a month on average in September 2026, 4.1% more than a year before. That is 29% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£525
Two bedrooms£650
Three bedrooms£776
Four or more bedrooms£1,083

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,794 kWh of it on average in 2024, 14% less than the district's 11,432 kWh, and 2,608 kWh of electricity, 6% less than the district's 2,780 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
NE38 7RD832,310 kWh 849,890 kWh
NE38 7QH372,247 kWh 367,155 kWh
NE38 7RJ262,316 kWh 278,570 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is NE38.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (38% of about 2,550 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 4 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 6.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

6 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Nissan Wind Farm Wind 6 turbines 4 MW Operational Nov 2005 3 km (1.9 miles)
Nissan Motors Plant Extn Sunderland 07/02462/FUL Wind 3 turbines 2 MW Operational Apr 2008 3 km (1.9 miles)
PG4 St Bedes Power Generation (Extension 2) County Durham 2/03/00072/CM Landfill Gas 1 MW Operational Oct 2003 3.5 km (2.2 miles)
PG4 St Bedes Power Generation County Durham CMA/2/3 Landfill Gas 2 MW Operational Mar 2001 3.6 km (2.2 miles)
PG4 St Bedes Power Generation (Extension) Landfill Gas 2 MW Operational Jul 2002 3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Kibblesworth Landfill Site Landfill Gas 2.3 MW Operational Oct 1998 4.6 km (2.9 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 29 October 2026 to 4 November 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footpath (immediate - urgent works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 4 January 2027 to 25 January 2027: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the carriageway, verge (major (paa) works)
  • 4 January 2027 to 25 January 2027: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway, verge (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor works)
  • 29 September 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (minor works)
  • 18 September 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility asset works, give and take, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 14 August 2026 to 18 September 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
  • 6 August 2026 to 7 August 2026: SUNDERLAND CITY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (immediate - emergency works)

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 10 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 7QZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7RDnot in 2 or 3 3 / 2 / 4 unlikely
NE38 7QHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NE38 7RJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 5 unlikely
NE38 7RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7TPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 8 times, for 1 hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Oxclose Burn, Willows Pond.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Stoney Lane Cso Northumbrian Water Oxclose Burn 5 1 330 m
J F Kennedy Estate Cso Northumbrian Water Willows Pond 3 0 880 m (0.5 miles)
Washington Village Cemetry Cso Northumbrian Water Willows Pond 0 0 880 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

1 of the street's 6 postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 5 more are elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

By postcode centre: less than 1% (5); 1 to 3% (2).

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 420 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Calders Site Fatfield, Washington, Tyne and Wear 1980 to 1982 Inert 420 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 9 addresses are between 44 m and 64 m above sea level (54 m on average); the ground rises about 20 m from the lowest to the highest.

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 7QH100%100%100%0%
NE38 7QZ100%100%0%0%
NE38 7RD100%100%100%0%
NE38 7RJ100%100%100%0%
NE38 7RU33%0%0%33%
NE38 7TP100%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 stationsHeworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Chester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km (5.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parkway-Cleeve Court Washington Village220 m
Bus or coach stationGalleries Bus Station Washington580 m (0.4 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays11.1 km (6.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Galleries Shopping Centre Car Park680 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Albany Village Centre550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL18.2 km (11 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Galleries Medical Practice Good Mar 2020570 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Galleries Health Centre570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSpire Washington Hospital Good Apr 20263.3 km (2.1 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Holly House Care Home Outstanding Mar 2026520 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationWashington Police Station570 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine The Galleries Halifax160 m

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 8.5 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Albany Park 15 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,460 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,300 m²690 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 26 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lodge to West of Washington Old Hall, a listed building (Grade I), 750 m (0.5 miles) east. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodge to West of Washington Old HallListed building, Grade I750 m (0.5 miles) east
Washington Old HallListed building, Grade I770 m (0.5 miles) east
Colliery engine house at Washington F Pit, AlbanyScheduled monument790 m (0.5 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cube PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Lookout LakeLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Match IslandIsland2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Sheddon's HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Bowes LakeLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
Longacre DeneValley3.9 km (2.4 miles) 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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6450
Under 5539

6 of the street's 9 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), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Wessington Primary SchoolPrimary2–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 23% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington Roman CatholicPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Albany Village Primary SchoolPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Washington AcademySecondary11–16700 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.0 (33.1 in 2025 and 30.9 in 2024); 37.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
Biddick Primary SchoolPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 58% in 2023)
St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)
Oxclose Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
John F Kennedy Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
Oxclose Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.2 km (0.7 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
Blackfell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 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; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Barmston Village Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Oxclose Community AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.8 miles) 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.7 (41.8 in 2025 and 40.9 in 2024); 40.3% grade 5+ in English and maths

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 690 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Castle Kindergarten NE37 1UA Full day care 53 Outstanding (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 690 m (0.4 miles)
Lamesley Childcare@ St John Boste NE38 0HL Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Cheeky Chimps Childcare NE37 2SY Full day care 24 Jun 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 1 km (0.6 miles)
Little Treasures Nursery NE37 2TE Full day care 34 Nov 2025: Expected standard in 6 areas 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
New World Nursery NE37 2DU Full day care 72 Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Washington Day Nursery NE37 1HA Full day care 55 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 66 childminders and 4 home childcarers (nannies) in Sunderland. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Sainsbury's NE38 7RURetailers - other160 m5 Very good26 Apr 2017
Tim Horton's NE38 7RWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
The Black Bush NE38 7HYPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Wessington Primary School NE38 7PYSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Nov 2025
McDonalds NE38 7SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Nov 2025
Cooplands NE38 7SARetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Nov 2024
Asda NE38 7NFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good9 Feb 2026
Sainsbury's NE38 7RURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Iceland NE38 7SARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Apr 2024
Savers Drugstores NE38 7SARetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Buzz Bingo NE38 7SBPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Dec 2024
Hollywood Bowl Washington NE38 7SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Aldi Foodstores Ltd. NE38 7RWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Jan 2020
Gillies Restaurant Wash Ltd NE38 7SARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Holland & Barrett NE38 7SARetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

150 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting71
Anti-social behaviour32
Violence and sexual offences17
Criminal damage and arson11
Other theft6
Public order4
Other crime4
Robbery2
Vehicle crime2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (68); On or near Petrol Station (28); On or near Bede Crescent (22); On or near Parking Area (21); On or near Byland Court (6).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

9 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 7 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian; 2 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 4 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202131
202220
202321
202420
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
14 Sep 2024 16:37 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
9 Mar 2024 12:52 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
12 Nov 2023 12:28 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
15 Jan 2023 15:05 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
13 Oct 2022 16:35 Slight 1 person: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
25 Aug 2022 17:25 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
10 Dec 2021 08:00 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 20 mph Wet road
10 Sep 2021 18:30 Slight 2 people: 2 pedestrians Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
21 Jul 2021 18:00 Slight 1 person: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A1231 between A182 and A195, with 44,660 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 340 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A1231 A182 to A195 44,660 estimated; counted 2023 4% +3% since 2015 340 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,359 residents in 632 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 age4940
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%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)24%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 7 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD: Utility asset works, 22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 29 October 2026 to 4 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • NE38 7QZ: 3 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • NE38 7RD: 2 addresses of 95 in the postcode
  • NE38 7QH: 1 address of 42 in the postcode
  • NE38 7RJ: 1 address of 28 in the postcode
  • NE38 7RU: 1 address of 11 in the postcode
  • NE38 7TP: 1 address of 4 in the postcode

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.