Hetton-le-Hole
TownTown in Sunderland, North East.
Hetton-le-Hole is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hetton-le-Hole add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Hetton-le-Hole live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hetton-le-Hole compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hetton-le-Hole safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hetton-le-Hole at a rate of 82.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 115.6 per 1,000 people across North East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 69 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hetton-le-Hole.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (269), anti-social behaviour (167) and other crime (133).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hetton-le-Hole was 87.3 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Hetton-le-Hole, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hetton-le-Hole has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hetton-le-Hole
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunderland 035A | 1,740 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| Sunderland 035B | 1,188 | 103.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.9% |
| Sunderland 035C | 1,516 | 120.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.6% |
| Sunderland 035E | 1,452 | 64.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Sunderland 036A | 1,572 | 112.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.1% |
| Sunderland 036C | 1,609 | 58.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.2% |
Your MP
- Bridget PhillipsonLabourMP for Houghton and Sunderland South
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Hetton-le-Hole1
Middle areas in Hetton-le-Hole1
Towns near Hetton-le-Hole6
Hetton-le-Hole in brief
Hetton-le-Hole is a town in Sunderland, North East.
About 9,663 people lived in Hetton-le-Hole in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £130,000 in 2025 across 140 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hetton-le-Hole was £130,000 in 2025.
Hetton-le-Hole had 8,968 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Hetton-le-Hole live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hetton-le-Hole, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.