Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 2 secondary schools. Longhill High School is the nearest published school at 278 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN2 7AW
Rottingdean & West Saltdean · Brighton and Hove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven
- Postcode district
- BN2
- Postcode sector
- BN2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN2 7AW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN2
- Postcode sector
- BN2 7
- Latitude
- 50.817779
- Longitude
- -0.070714
- British National Grid easting
- 536,000
- British National Grid northing
- 103,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Brighton and Hove · E06000043
- Electoral ward
- Rottingdean & West Saltdean · E05015412
- Parish or community
- E43000034
- Westminster constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven · E14001129
- Output area
- E00085604
- Lower layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 033F · E01016962
- Middle layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 033 · E02003523
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 2
- 278 m
Longhill High School
Community school
- 320 m
Oxford International College, Brighton
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
Roedean School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 246
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 86
- Anti social behaviour 56
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Public order 25
- Other theft 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN2 7 residents
- 4,378
Age bands in BN2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.9%
473 residents
328 residents
736 residents
1,378 residents
1,367 residents
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.
GP practices
11
within 5 km straight-line
WOODINGDEAN MEDICAL CENTRE
WARREN ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 6BA
ODS code G81065
2.1 km
BROADWAY SURGERY
WELLSBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE, 179 WHITEHAWK ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 5FL
ODS code G81669
2.7 km
WELLSBOURNE HEALTHCARE CIC
WELLSBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE, 179 WHITEHAWK ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 5FL
ODS code Y06007
2.7 km
SALTDEAN AND ROTTINGDEAN MED PRACTICE
GRAND OCEAN MEDICAL CENTRE, LONGRIDGE AVENUE, SALTDEAN, BRIGHTON, BN2 8BU
ODS code G81076
3.0 km
THE AVENUE SURGERY
1 THE AVENUE, MOULSECOOMB, BRIGHTON, BN2 4GF
ODS code G81075
4.2 km
ARDINGLY COURT SURGERY
1 ARDINGLY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 1SS
ODS code G81006
4.4 km
PARK CRESCENT HEALTH CENTRE
1 LEWES ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 3HP
ODS code G81028
4.5 km
ARCH HEALTHCARE
MORLEY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 9DH
ODS code G81689
4.6 km
PAVILION SURGERY
2 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1EJ
ODS code G81054
4.6 km
REGENCY SURGERY
4 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1FZ
ODS code G81656
4.6 km
ST. PETER'S MEDICAL CENTRE
30-36 OXFORD STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 4LA
ODS code G81011
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ovingdean Stores
BCT · Ovingdean
- 0.1 miles
Wanderdown Road South End
BCT · Ovingdean
- 0.1 miles
Wanderdown Road South End
BCT · Ovingdean
- 0.1 miles
Ovingdean Stores
BCT · Ovingdean
- 0.1 miles
Longhill School Grounds
BCS · Ovingdean
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Brighton and Hove 033F, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,921 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
246 published events cover 12 months, averaging 20.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 86 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.