Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. King's School is the nearest published school at 2.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN1 8YL
Downland Villages · Mid Sussex · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Downland Villages
- Local authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex
- Postcode district
- BN1
- Postcode sector
- BN1 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN1 8YL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN1
- Postcode sector
- BN1 8
- Latitude
- 50.879724
- Longitude
- -0.210583
- British National Grid easting
- 525,981
- British National Grid northing
- 110,440
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mid Sussex · E07000228
- Electoral ward
- Downland Villages · E05014719
- Parish or community
- E04009994
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Sussex · E14001366
- Output area
- E00162004
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 016D · E01031770
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 016 · E02006619
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 3.1 km
King's School
Free schools
- 3.2 km
West Blatchington Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Mile Oak Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 22
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Other theft 3
- Burglary 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- BN1 8 residents
- 14,691
2 female, 1 male
Age bands in BN1 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
2,625 residents
1,593 residents
3,385 residents
4,235 residents
2,889 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN1 8 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
MILE OAK MEDICAL CENTRE
CHALKY ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 2WF
ODS code G81073
3.4 km
HOVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST WAY, HOVE, BN3 8LD
ODS code G81001
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Devils Dyke
BCT · Devils Dyke
- 0.5 miles
Hangleton Bridleway
BCT · Devils Dyke
- 0.6 miles
Hangleton Bridleway
BCT · Devils Dyke
- 1.0 miles
St Andrew's Church
BCT · Fulking
- 1.0 miles
Brighton and Hove Golf Club
BCT · Devils Dyke
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Sussex 016D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,658 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
22 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.