Hetton
WardSouth Sunderland. About 11,105 people in 11 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 86% of people in Hetton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hetton compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hetton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hetton at a rate of 88.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 98.2 per 1,000 people across Sunderland.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 75 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hetton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (342), other crime (174) and anti-social behaviour (165).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Sunderland
These figures are published for the whole of Sunderland, not for each ward, so they describe all of Sunderland and not Hetton alone. See Sunderland
Hetton in brief
Hetton had 10,338 usual residents at the census.
About 86% of people in Hetton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hetton, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Hetton, 3.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.