Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 9 secondary schools. Westdene Primary School is the nearest published school at 404 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN1 5HL
Westdene & Hove Park · Brighton and Hove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Brighton
- Ward
- Westdene & Hove Park
- Local authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion
- Postcode district
- BN1
- Postcode sector
- BN1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN1 5HL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN1
- Postcode sector
- BN1 5
- Latitude
- 50.862122
- Longitude
- -0.158437
- British National Grid easting
- 529,698
- British National Grid northing
- 108,573
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Brighton and Hove · E06000043
- Electoral ward
- Westdene & Hove Park · E05015417
- Parish or community
- E43000034
- Westminster constituency
- Brighton Pavilion · E14001130
- Output area
- E00085863
- Lower layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 003C · E01016998
- Middle layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 003 · E02003493
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BN1
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Wayside, Brighton, BN1 5HL | 15 November 2019 | £450,000 |
| 6, Wayside, Brighton, BN1 5HL | 20 September 2019 | £440,000 |
| 1, Wayside, Brighton, BN1 5HL | 28 April 2016 | £620,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 9
- 404 m
Westdene Primary School
Community school
- 511 m
Downs View Life Skills College
Special post 16 institution
- 787 m
Patcham Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 807
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 249
- Anti social behaviour 132
- Criminal damage and arson 82
- Other theft 78
- Shoplifting 71
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 28
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- BN1 5 residents
- 10,575
15 female, 13 male
Age bands in BN1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.3%
1,793 residents
1,184 residents
2,801 residents
3,328 residents
1,514 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN1 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
26
within 5 km
CARDEN SURGERY
COUNTY OAK MEDICAL CENTRE, CARDEN HILL, BRIGHTON, BN1 8DD
ODS code G81014
2.2 km
WARMDENE SURGERY
COUNTY OAK MEDICAL CENTRE, CARDEN HILL, BRIGHTON, BN1 8DD
ODS code G81036
2.2 km
THE HAVEN PRACTICE
100 BEACONSFIELD VILLAS, BRIGHTON, BN1 6HE
ODS code G81646
2.4 km
SCHOOL HOUSE SURGERY
SCHOOL HOUSE, HERTFORD ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 7GF
ODS code G81613
2.7 km
BEACONSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81042
2.7 km
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81038
2.7 km
PRESTON PARK SURGERY
2A FLORENCE ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6DP
ODS code G81018
3.0 km
HOVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST WAY, HOVE, BN3 8LD
ODS code G81001
3.2 km
CHARTER MEDICAL CENTRE
88 DAVIGDOR ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1RF
ODS code G81034
3.4 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GOLDSTONE VILLAS, HOVE, BN3 3AT
ODS code G81070
3.6 km
SEVEN DIALS MEDICAL CENTRE
24 MONTPELIER CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 3JJ
ODS code G81047
3.7 km
THE AVENUE SURGERY
1 THE AVENUE, MOULSECOOMB, BRIGHTON, BN2 4GF
ODS code G81075
3.7 km
WISH PARK SURGERY
191A PORTLAND ROAD, HOVE, BN3 5JA
ODS code G81083
3.8 km
ST. PETER'S MEDICAL CENTRE
30-36 OXFORD STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 4LA
ODS code G81011
3.8 km
PARK CRESCENT HEALTH CENTRE
1 LEWES ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 3HP
ODS code G81028
3.9 km
MONTPELIER SURGERY
2 VICTORIA ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3FS
ODS code G81044
3.9 km
BRIGHTON STATION HEALTH CENTRE
ASPECT HOUSE, 84-87 QUEENS ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3XE
ODS code Y02676
4.0 km
WELLBN HEALTHCARE
18-19 WESTERN ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1AE
ODS code G81638
4.1 km
ARCH HEALTHCARE
MORLEY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 9DH
ODS code G81689
4.4 km
SHIP STREET SURGERY
65-67 SHIP STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 1AE
ODS code G81694
4.7 km
Showing 20 of 26 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bramble Rise
BCT · Westdene
- 0.1 miles
Top of Copse Hill
BCT · Westdene
- 0.2 miles
Top of Copse Hill
BCT · Westdene
- 0.3 miles
Copse Hill
BCT · Westdene
- 0.3 miles
Brangwyn Crescent
BCT · Patcham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Brighton and Hove 003C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,286 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
807 published events cover 12 months, averaging 67.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 249 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.