Houghton-le-Spring
TownTown in Sunderland, North East.
Houghton-le-Spring is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Houghton-le-Spring 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 44% of people in Houghton-le-Spring live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Houghton-le-Spring compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Houghton-le-Spring safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Houghton-le-Spring at a rate of 97.5 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, 108 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Houghton-le-Spring.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (335), anti-social behaviour (254) and other crime (192).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Houghton-le-Spring was 117.0 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 Houghton-le-Spring, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Houghton-le-Spring has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Houghton-le-Spring
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunderland 033B | 1,467 | 41.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Sunderland 033D | 1,286 | 82.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.4% |
| Sunderland 034A | 1,547 | 127.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.4% |
| Sunderland 034B | 1,341 | 68.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.7% |
| Sunderland 034C | 1,463 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Sunderland 034D | 1,568 | 67.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.3% |
| Sunderland 034E | 1,268 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Sunderland 034F | 1,352 | 323.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 83.4% |
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 Houghton-le-Spring2
Middle areas in Houghton-le-Spring1
Towns near Houghton-le-Spring6
Houghton-le-Spring in brief
Houghton-le-Spring is a town in Sunderland, North East.
About 13,022 people lived in Houghton-le-Spring in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £146,000 in 2025 across 173 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 97.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Houghton-le-Spring was £146,000 in 2025.
Houghton-le-Spring had 12,552 usual residents at the census.
About 44% of people in Houghton-le-Spring live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Houghton-le-Spring, 94.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.