Schools
58 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 6 secondary schools. City Academy Whitehawk is the nearest published school at 295 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN2 5LY
Whitehawk & Marina · Brighton and Hove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Brighton
- Ward
- Whitehawk & Marina
- Local authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven
- Postcode district
- BN2
- Postcode sector
- BN2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN2 5LY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN2
- Postcode sector
- BN2 5
- Latitude
- 50.824846
- Longitude
- -0.105139
- British National Grid easting
- 533,555
- British National Grid northing
- 104,523
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Brighton and Hove · E06000043
- Electoral ward
- Whitehawk & Marina · E05015418
- Parish or community
- E43000034
- Westminster constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven · E14001129
- Output area
- E00085123
- Lower layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 025C · E01016866
- Middle layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 025 · E02003515
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 BN2
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Selmeston Place, Brighton, BN2 5LY | 27 January 2003 | £69,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 58
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 6
- 295 m
City Academy Whitehawk
Academy sponsor led
- 615 m
St Mark's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 792 m
St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,941
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,500
- Anti social behaviour 578
- Public order 399
- Criminal damage and arson 299
- Other theft 283
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 76
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- BN2 5 residents
- 13,217
38 female, 38 male
Age bands in BN2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.8%
2,187 residents
1,680 residents
3,644 residents
3,556 residents
1,919 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN2 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
24
within 5 km
BROADWAY SURGERY
WELLSBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE, 179 WHITEHAWK ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 5FL
ODS code G81669
170 m
WELLSBOURNE HEALTHCARE CIC
WELLSBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE, 179 WHITEHAWK ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 5FL
ODS code Y06007
170 m
PARK CRESCENT HEALTH CENTRE
1 LEWES ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 3HP
ODS code G81028
1.9 km
ARDINGLY COURT SURGERY
1 ARDINGLY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 1SS
ODS code G81006
2.0 km
ARCH HEALTHCARE
MORLEY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 9DH
ODS code G81689
2.1 km
WOODINGDEAN MEDICAL CENTRE
WARREN ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 6BA
ODS code G81065
2.2 km
REGENCY SURGERY
4 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1FZ
ODS code G81656
2.2 km
ST. PETER'S MEDICAL CENTRE
30-36 OXFORD STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 4LA
ODS code G81011
2.2 km
PAVILION SURGERY
2 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1EJ
ODS code G81054
2.2 km
THE AVENUE SURGERY
1 THE AVENUE, MOULSECOOMB, BRIGHTON, BN2 4GF
ODS code G81075
2.2 km
BRIGHTON STATION HEALTH CENTRE
ASPECT HOUSE, 84-87 QUEENS ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3XE
ODS code Y02676
2.6 km
SHIP STREET SURGERY
65-67 SHIP STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 1AE
ODS code G81694
2.6 km
PRESTON PARK SURGERY
2A FLORENCE ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6DP
ODS code G81018
2.9 km
SCHOOL HOUSE SURGERY
SCHOOL HOUSE, HERTFORD ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 7GF
ODS code G81613
2.9 km
SEVEN DIALS MEDICAL CENTRE
24 MONTPELIER CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 3JJ
ODS code G81047
3.0 km
MONTPELIER SURGERY
2 VICTORIA ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3FS
ODS code G81044
3.1 km
THE HAVEN PRACTICE
100 BEACONSFIELD VILLAS, BRIGHTON, BN1 6HE
ODS code G81646
3.3 km
BEACONSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81042
3.4 km
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81038
3.4 km
WELLBN HEALTHCARE
18-19 WESTERN ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1AE
ODS code G81638
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 24 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Community Hub
BCT · Whitehawk
- 0.0 miles
Community Hub
BCT · Whitehawk
- 0.1 miles
St David's Hall
BCT · Whitehawk
- 0.1 miles
St David's Hall
BCT · Whitehawk
- 0.1 miles
Piltdown Road
BCT · Whitehawk
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Brighton and Hove 025C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
621 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
Recorded crime
3,941 published events cover 12 months, averaging 328.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,500 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.