Shiney Row and Penshaw
TownTown in Sunderland, North East.
Shiney Row and Penshaw is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shiney Row and Penshaw 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 50% of people in Shiney Row and Penshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shiney Row and Penshaw compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shiney Row and Penshaw safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shiney Row and Penshaw at a rate of 57.3 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, 101 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shiney Row and Penshaw.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (324), other crime (163) and anti-social behaviour (162).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Shiney Row and Penshaw was 67.7 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 Shiney Row and Penshaw, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shiney Row and Penshaw has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shiney Row and Penshaw
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunderland 030A | 1,621 | 183.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.8% |
| Sunderland 030B | 1,731 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| Sunderland 030D | 1,523 | 58.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Sunderland 030E | 1,527 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.2% |
| Sunderland 030F | 1,730 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Sunderland 030G | 1,558 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Sunderland 032A | 1,323 | 93.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.3% |
| Sunderland 032B | 1,554 | 24.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
| Sunderland 032D | 1,897 | 29.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Sunderland 032F | 1,635 | 75.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.8% |
| Sunderland 032G | 1,255 | 58.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.2% |
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 Shiney Row and Penshaw1
Middle areas in Shiney Row and Penshaw2
Towns near Shiney Row and Penshaw6
Shiney Row and Penshaw in brief
Shiney Row and Penshaw is a town in Sunderland, North East.
About 17,613 people lived in Shiney Row and Penshaw in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £185,000 in 2025 across 303 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Shiney Row and Penshaw was £185,000 in 2025.
Shiney Row and Penshaw had 16,900 usual residents at the census.
About 50% of people in Shiney Row and Penshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shiney Row and Penshaw, 98.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.