Washington
TownTown in Sunderland, North East.
Washington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Washington 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 84% of people in Washington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Washington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Washington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Washington at a rate of 84.7 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, 346 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Washington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,306), anti-social behaviour (788) and other crime (724).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Washington was 96.9 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 Washington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Washington has no single figure. Of its 38 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Washington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunderland 007A | 1,394 | 132.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.9% |
| Sunderland 007B | 1,261 | 63.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Sunderland 007C | 1,648 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.5% |
| Sunderland 009A | 1,396 | 182.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.5% |
| Sunderland 009B | 1,216 | 121.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Sunderland 009C | 1,327 | 23.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sunderland 009D | 1,263 | 139.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.4% |
| Sunderland 009E | 1,395 | 103.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Sunderland 009F | 1,282 | 222.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Sunderland 009G | 1,475 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Sunderland 010A | 1,190 | 71.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 79.3% |
| Sunderland 010B | 1,737 | 72.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sunderland 010C | 1,435 | 88.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.0% |
| Sunderland 010D | 1,255 | 109.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| Sunderland 010E | 1,076 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Sunderland 017A | 1,389 | 43.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.6% |
| Sunderland 017B | 1,235 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Sunderland 017C | 1,352 | 56.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Sunderland 017E | 1,556 | 81.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.5% |
| Sunderland 017F | 1,512 | 23.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| Sunderland 017G | 1,608 | 88.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.4% |
| Sunderland 019A | 1,208 | 62.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.3% |
| Sunderland 019B | 1,443 | 129.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.7% |
| Sunderland 019C | 1,301 | 317.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 65.2% |
| Sunderland 019D | 1,408 | 117.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.6% |
| Sunderland 019E | 1,132 | 24.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.6% |
| Sunderland 020A | 1,545 | 162.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Sunderland 020B | 1,097 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.5% |
| Sunderland 020C | 1,219 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| Sunderland 020D | 1,328 | 27.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Sunderland 020E | 1,380 | 54.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Sunderland 020F | 1,654 | 52.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.3% |
| Sunderland 025B | 1,438 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.6% |
| Sunderland 025C | 1,288 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 69.7% |
| Sunderland 025D | 1,532 | 40.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.0% |
| Sunderland 025E | 1,209 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.6% |
| Sunderland 025F | 1,325 | 40.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.2% |
| Sunderland 025G | 1,369 | 67.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.3% |
Your MP
- Mrs Sharon HodgsonLabourMP for Washington and Gateshead 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 Washington2
Middle areas in Washington7
Towns near Washington6
Washington in brief
Washington is a town in Sunderland, North East.
About 51,877 people lived in Washington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £165,000 in 2025 across 606 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 84.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Washington was £165,000 in 2025.
Washington had 51,318 usual residents at the census.
About 84% of people in Washington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Washington, 93.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.