| Postcode | DH4 7JQ | 
|---|---|
| Post Town | Houghton le Spring | 
| Nearest station | Chester-Le-Street (6 km) | 
| Bus stops | Langdale Road-Railway Monument (E) Station Road-Wensleydale Avenue (S) Wensleydale Avenue-Station Road (W) Wensleydale Avenue-Station Road (E) Station Road-Wensleydale Avenue (N) Langdale Road-Eskdale (E) | 
| Known addresses | 
                          No addresses found
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| Businesses | 
                        No businesses found
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| Latitude | 54.876487 | |
|---|---|---|
| Longitude | -1.500672 | |
| Easting | 432138 | |
| Northing | 553639 | |
| Grid reference | NZ321536 | |
| UTM reference | 30U 596200 6082076 | |
| what3words | with.piper.learns | |
| FixPhrase | crunching lyricist stoneware unmindful | |
| Plus code | 9C6WVFGX+HP | |
| Altitude | 44 metres (145 feet) | |
| Sunrise (today) | 7:08 | |
| Sunset (today) | 16:33 | |
| Distance away | ||
| Distance to sea | 9.1 KMs (5.6 miles) | 
| Parish | Sunderland, unparished area | E43000178 | 
|---|---|---|
| Ward | Shiney Row | E05001170 | 
| Metropolitan District | Sunderland | E08000024 | 
| County | Tyne and Wear | E11000017 | 
| Constituency (2024) | Houghton and Sunderland South | E14001295 | 
| MP | Bridget Phillipson | Labour | 
| Police force | Northumbria | |
| NUTS/ITL 3 | Sunderland | |
| NUTS/ITL 2 | Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear | |
| NUTS/ITL 1 | North East | |
| Country | England | E92000001 | 
| Date introduced | January 1980 | 
|---|---|
| Date usage ended | October 2008 | 
| Last updated | September 2025 | 
| User type | Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day) | 
| Quality | Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean | 
| Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019) | Most deprivedLeast deprived | |
|---|---|---|
| Average household income (2020) | Lowest (£22,200)
                        Highest (£108,100)
                       | |
| Rural/urban (2021) | Urban: Nearer to a major town or city | |
| Rural/urban (2011) | Urban major conurbation | |
| Built up area (2024) | Shiney Row and Penshaw | E63007244 | 
| Census output area (2021) | E00170216 | |
| Census output area (2011) | 8C1 | |
| Lower layer super output area (2021) | Sunderland 025A | E01008799 | 
| Lower layer super output area (2011) | Sunderland 025A | E01008799 | 
| Middle layer super output area (2021) | Harraton, Rickleton & Fatfield | E02001815 | 
| Middle layer super output area (2011) | Harraton, Rickleton & Fatfield | E02001815 | 
| Travel to work area | Sunderland | E30000275 | 
| Average property price in Durham | £153,013 | 
|---|---|
| Annual change | 5.3% |