SR7 crime rate and statistics

The SR7 postcode district, in the SR (Sunderland) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 4,376 street-crime records for SR7 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 20.3% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 143.8 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 126.7 for Durham Constabulary. 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

4,376

Latest month (August 2026)

418

Year-on-year

+20.3%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 386
October 2025 321
November 2025 281
December 2025 319
January 2026 323
February 2026 356
March 2026 342
April 2026 343
May 2026 413
June 2026 379
July 2026 495
August 2026 418

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.

SR7

143.8

Durham Constabulary

126.7

4,376 records and 30,427 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 SR7 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 SR7

Published street-crime records in SR7, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of SR7: the north-east 1,739, the south-west 1,132, the east 604, the north 488, the south 267, the west 73, the south-east 6, the north-west 4.

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 SR7's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and SR7'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 SR7 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore SR7 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for SR7 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 3,367
2022 3,490
2023 3,420
2024 3,279
2025 3,781
2026 (part year) 3,069

Is SR7 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SR7 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in SR7 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

SR7's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Durham Constabulary (99.4%), Northumbria Police (0.5%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%) and Metropolitan Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in SR7

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

Sector Street-crime records
SR7 0 388
SR7 1 33
SR7 7 1,615
SR7 8 872
SR7 9 1,468

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 30,427 Census 2021 residents of SR7.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 52.9% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 11.5% 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 SR7 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) £126,000 (222)
2025 £124,475 (402)
2024 £135,000 (414)
2023 £114,500 (328)
2022 £115,748 (430)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £265,000 (27) £147,000 (87) £101,000 (96) £82,250 (12)
2025 £270,000 (72) £137,750 (126) £100,000 (190) £81,000 (14)
2024 £300,000 (73) £160,000 (127) £95,500 (204) £78,000 (10)
2023 £261,000 (47) £139,000 (116) £86,000 (152) £65,000 (13)
2022 £275,000 (76) £122,500 (134) £89,972 (198) £72,500 (22)

Schools and colleges

11 open establishments with a postcode in SR7, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 11 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Seaham Harbour Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
New Seaham Academy Primary Academy converter
Ribbon School Primary Academy converter
Ropery Walk Primary School Primary Community school
Seaham Trinity Primary School Primary Community school
Seaview Primary School Primary Community school
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Seaham Primary Academy converter
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton Primary Voluntary aided school
St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School Primary Academy converter
Westlea Primary School Primary Community school
Seaham High School Secondary Academy converter

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
High4
Medium1
Low3
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 852 postcodes in SR7 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
Gigabit58.5%78.4%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)95.5%97.8%

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CrimeMapsUK. SR7 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/sr7/

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