SR3 crime rate and statistics

The SR3 postcode district, in the SR (Sunderland) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,897 street-crime records for SR3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 15.6% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 76.2 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 104.1 for Northumbria Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

2,897

Latest month (August 2026)

282

Year-on-year

-15.6%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 316
October 2025 301
November 2025 271
December 2025 229
January 2026 97
February 2026 162
March 2026 259
April 2026 258
May 2026 248
June 2026 232
July 2026 242
August 2026 282

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

SR3

76.2

Northumbria Police

104.1

2,897 records and 38,021 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of SR3 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in SR3

Published street-crime records in SR3, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of SR3: the south 611, the south-east 545, the south-west 532, the west 406, the north-west 237, the north 188, the north-east 162, the east 87, the centre 45.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 270 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of SR3's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and SR3's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of SR3 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore SR3 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for SR3 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 3,717
2022 3,591
2023 3,775
2024 3,561
2025 3,378
2026 (part year) 1,780

Is SR3 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SR3 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in SR3 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

SR3's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Northumbria Police (99.4%), Durham Constabulary (0.6%) and Humberside Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in SR3

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
SR3 1 1,018
SR3 2 585
SR3 3 642
SR3 4 652

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 38,021 Census 2021 residents of SR3.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 43.7% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 19.3% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About SR3 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £168,750 (203)
2025 £205,000 (577)
2024 £197,125 (470)
2023 £202,950 (542)
2022 £198,975 (674)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £318,900 (38) £170,000 (116) £125,000 (35) £63,475 (14)
2025 £308,995 (211) £185,000 (255) £122,000 (89) £52,000 (22)
2024 £303,698 (172) £173,000 (203) £110,000 (81) £62,500 (14)
2023 £284,975 (200) £176,000 (229) £110,000 (87) £57,500 (26)
2022 £294,995 (229) £168,975 (314) £120,000 (97) £61,750 (34)

Schools and colleges

18 open establishments with a postcode in SR3, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 18 schools
SchoolPhaseType
City of Sunderland College 16 plus Further education
Mill Hill Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Benedict Biscop Church of England Academy Primary Academy converter
East Herrington Primary Academy Primary Academy converter
Farringdon Academy Primary Academy converter
Hasting Hill Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Mill Hill Primary School Primary Community school
New Silksworth Academy Infant Primary Academy sponsor led
New Silksworth Academy Junior Primary Academy sponsor led
Plains Farm Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
St Leonard's Catholic Primary School, Silksworth Primary Academy converter
Thorney Close Primary School Primary Community school
Farringdon Community Academy Secondary Academy converter
Sandhill View Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Portland Academy – Academy special converter
Sunningdale School – Community special school
The Link School – Pupil referral unit
Thornhill Park School – Other independent special school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High5
Medium0
Low11
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 917 postcodes in SR3 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit79.1%92.7%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)95.2%98.0%

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CrimeMapsUK. SR3 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/sr3/

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