Schools
71 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 8 secondary schools. Varndean College is the nearest published school at 422 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN1 6WP
Preston Park · Brighton and Hove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Brighton
- Ward
- Preston Park
- Local authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion
- Postcode district
- BN1
- Postcode sector
- BN1 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN1 6WP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN1
- Postcode sector
- BN1 6
- Latitude
- 50.851682
- Longitude
- -0.149401
- British National Grid easting
- 530,363
- British National Grid northing
- 107,428
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Brighton and Hove · E06000043
- Electoral ward
- Preston Park · E05015409
- Parish or community
- E43000034
- Westminster constituency
- Brighton Pavilion · E14001130
- Output area
- E00085849
- Lower layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 004C · E01017001
- Middle layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 004 · E02003494
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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Varndean Close, Brighton, BN1 6WP | 14 October 2020 | £750,000 |
| 6, Varndean Close, Brighton, BN1 6WP | 14 January 2015 | £610,000 |
| 5, Varndean Close, Brighton, BN1 6WP | 23 January 2014 | £540,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 71
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 8
- 422 m
Varndean College
Further education
- 522 m
Dorothy Stringer School
Community school
- 559 m
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,690
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 529
- Anti social behaviour 320
- Criminal damage and arson 163
- Other theft 147
- Public order 128
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- BN1 6 residents
- 17,321
7 female, 6 male
Age bands in BN1 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.5%
2,726 residents
2,136 residents
4,785 residents
5,089 residents
2,504 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN1 6 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
27
within 5 km
THE HAVEN PRACTICE
100 BEACONSFIELD VILLAS, BRIGHTON, BN1 6HE
ODS code G81646
1.1 km
BEACONSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81042
1.5 km
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81038
1.5 km
SCHOOL HOUSE SURGERY
SCHOOL HOUSE, HERTFORD ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 7GF
ODS code G81613
1.5 km
PRESTON PARK SURGERY
2A FLORENCE ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6DP
ODS code G81018
1.7 km
CARDEN SURGERY
COUNTY OAK MEDICAL CENTRE, CARDEN HILL, BRIGHTON, BN1 8DD
ODS code G81014
2.0 km
WARMDENE SURGERY
COUNTY OAK MEDICAL CENTRE, CARDEN HILL, BRIGHTON, BN1 8DD
ODS code G81036
2.0 km
CHARTER MEDICAL CENTRE
88 DAVIGDOR ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1RF
ODS code G81034
2.3 km
SEVEN DIALS MEDICAL CENTRE
24 MONTPELIER CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 3JJ
ODS code G81047
2.5 km
ST. PETER'S MEDICAL CENTRE
30-36 OXFORD STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 4LA
ODS code G81011
2.5 km
PARK CRESCENT HEALTH CENTRE
1 LEWES ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 3HP
ODS code G81028
2.5 km
THE AVENUE SURGERY
1 THE AVENUE, MOULSECOOMB, BRIGHTON, BN2 4GF
ODS code G81075
2.7 km
BRIGHTON STATION HEALTH CENTRE
ASPECT HOUSE, 84-87 QUEENS ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3XE
ODS code Y02676
2.7 km
MONTPELIER SURGERY
2 VICTORIA ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3FS
ODS code G81044
2.7 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GOLDSTONE VILLAS, HOVE, BN3 3AT
ODS code G81070
2.8 km
WELLBN HEALTHCARE
18-19 WESTERN ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1AE
ODS code G81638
3.0 km
ARCH HEALTHCARE
MORLEY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 9DH
ODS code G81689
3.1 km
HOVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST WAY, HOVE, BN3 8LD
ODS code G81001
3.3 km
SHIP STREET SURGERY
65-67 SHIP STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 1AE
ODS code G81694
3.4 km
REGENCY SURGERY
4 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1FZ
ODS code G81656
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 27 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
- 0.2 miles
Cedars Gardens
BCT · Brighton
- 0.2 miles
Surrenden Holt
BCT · Brighton
- 0.2 miles
Varndean College
BCT · Brighton
- 0.2 miles
Cedars Gardens
BCT · Brighton
- 0.2 miles
Varndean College
BCT · Brighton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Brighton and Hove 004C, 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
33,137 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 0
- 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
1,690 published events cover 12 months, averaging 140.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 529 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.