Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. University of Sussex is the nearest published school at 664 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN1 9PJ
Kingston · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN1 9PJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN1
- Postcode sector
- BN1 9
- Latitude
- 50.866840
- Longitude
- -0.078396
- British National Grid easting
- 535,317
- British National Grid northing
- 109,241
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Lewes · E07000063
- Electoral ward
- Kingston · E05011586
- Parish or community
- E04003771
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00106816
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 002C · E01021032
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewes 002 · E02004380
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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Police Cottage, Ridge Road, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PJ | 2 May 2012 | £310,501 |
| 3, Ridge Road, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PJ | 27 January 2010 | £408,000 |
| 2, Ridge Road, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PJ | 30 June 1999 | £123,250 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 664 m
University of Sussex
Higher education institutions
- 1.5 km
Brighton Aldridge Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.4 km
Coldean Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 161
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 60
- Other theft 21
- Drugs 18
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Public order 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- BN1 9 residents
- 8,738
6 female, 7 male
Age bands in BN1 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 57.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 12.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 8%
697 residents
5,283 residents
1,300 residents
1,159 residents
737 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN1 9 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+
- 85.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
6
within 5 km
HC UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX HEALTH CENTRE
HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, NEWICK HOUSE, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX,REFECTORY ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 9DN
ODS code G81071
726 m
CARDEN SURGERY
COUNTY OAK MEDICAL CENTRE, CARDEN HILL, BRIGHTON, BN1 8DD
ODS code G81014
3.4 km
WARMDENE SURGERY
COUNTY OAK MEDICAL CENTRE, CARDEN HILL, BRIGHTON, BN1 8DD
ODS code G81036
3.4 km
WOODINGDEAN MEDICAL CENTRE
WARREN ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 6BA
ODS code G81065
3.4 km
THE AVENUE SURGERY
1 THE AVENUE, MOULSECOOMB, BRIGHTON, BN2 4GF
ODS code G81075
3.5 km
SCHOOL HOUSE SURGERY
SCHOOL HOUSE, HERTFORD ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 7GF
ODS code G81613
4.3 km
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
Science Park Road
BCT · University of Sussex
- 0.2 miles
Village
BCT · Falmer
- 0.2 miles
Village
BCT · Falmer
- 0.2 miles
Village
BCT · Falmer
- 0.2 miles
Science Park Road
BCT · University of Sussex
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 002C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,050 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
161 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 60 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.