Property market
The five-year median is £410,000 from 7 recorded sales in BN16 1EF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Arun is £321,927 in June 2026, up 3.1% year on year.
BN16 1EF
East Preston · Arun · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Littlehampton
- Ward
- East Preston
- Local authority
- Arun
- Constituency
- Worthing West
- Postcode district
- BN16
- Postcode sector
- BN16 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN16 1EF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN16
- Postcode sector
- BN16 1
- Latitude
- 50.810612
- Longitude
- -0.476305
- British National Grid easting
- 507,447
- British National Grid northing
- 102,336
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Arun · E07000224
- Electoral ward
- East Preston · E05009809
- Parish or community
- E04012046
- Westminster constituency
- Worthing West · E14001599
- Output area
- E00160161
- Lower layer super output area
- Arun 008A · E01031412
- Middle layer super output area
- Arun 008 · E02006549
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 BN16
Property
86 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 32, Lavinia Way, East Preston, Littlehampton, BN16 1EF | 9 December 2025 | £410,000 |
| 15, Lavinia Way, East Preston, Littlehampton, BN16 1EF | 26 February 2025 | £465,000 |
| 2, Lavinia Way, East Preston, Littlehampton, BN16 1EF | 24 February 2025 | £360,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 388 m
East Preston Infant School
Community school
- 428 m
East Preston Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Georgian Gardens Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 643
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 214
- Anti social behaviour 111
- Shoplifting 106
- Public order 54
- Criminal damage and arson 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 107
- Postcode households
- 61
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- BN16 1 residents
- 6,873
60 female, 47 male
Age bands in BN16 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 38.7%
687 residents
485 residents
926 residents
1,798 residents
2,457 residents
This postcode contained 1.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN16 1 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+
- 93.5%
- 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
6
within 5 km
WILLOW GREEN SURGERY
STATION ROAD, EAST PRESTON, LITTLEHAMPTON, BN16 3AH
ODS code H82059
1.1 km
BARN SURGERY
22 FERRING STREET, FERRING, WORTHING, BN12 5HJ
ODS code H82087
2.1 km
WESTCOURT MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THE STREET, RUSTINGTON, LITTLEHAMPTON, BN16 3NX
ODS code H82007
2.6 km
PARK SURGERY
ST. FLORAS ROAD, LITTLEHAMPTON, BN17 6BF
ODS code H82039
3.9 km
ACF MEDICAL GROUP
FITZALAN MEDICAL CENTRE, FITZALAN ROAD, LITTLEHAMPTON, BN17 5JR
ODS code H82066
4.3 km
STRAND MEDICAL GROUP
1B THE CAUSEWAY, GORING-BY-SEA, WORTHING, BN12 6FA
ODS code H82011
4.7 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lavinia Way
BCT · East Preston
- 0.1 miles
Lavinia Way
BCT · East Preston
- 0.1 miles
Windlesham Gardens
BCT · East Preston
- 0.1 miles
Windlesham Gardens
BCT · East Preston
- 0.1 miles
Orchard Road
BCT · East Preston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Arun 008A, 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
31,368 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 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
- 4 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
- 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
Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. East Preston Infant School is the nearest published school at 388 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
643 published events cover 12 months, averaging 53.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 214 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.