The median advertised room in a shared house in Sunderland is £500 a month, and half of all rooms sit between £450 and £550. Measured from 15 live listings on 2026-08-09. No official statistics track what a room costs, so we do.
Sharing saves about £20 a month against the official average one-bed in Sunderland (£520, ONS) before bills, so roughly £240 a year.
100% of rooms accept students. Most of the market is open to you, so don't settle for a bad room.
The middle option. Studios here run about £550 a month: between a £500 room and a £520 one-bed, for a front door of your own.
Paste the listing into the free student rent check and get a verdict for that exact address: whether the rent is fair for the street, how far it is from campus, and the area basics nobody puts in the advert.