Property market
The five-year median is £466,500 from 4 recorded sales in BN2 8DE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lewes is £367,918 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
BN2 8DE
East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Brighton
- Local authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven
- Postcode district
- BN2
- Postcode sector
- BN2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN2 8DE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN2
- Postcode sector
- BN2 8
- Latitude
- 50.799110
- Longitude
- -0.030442
- British National Grid easting
- 538,892
- British National Grid northing
- 101,799
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Lewes · E07000063
- Electoral ward
- East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs · E05011585
- Parish or community
- E04003791
- Westminster constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven · E14001129
- Output area
- E00106802
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 006E · E01021031
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewes 006 · E02004384
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
40 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 42, Hamsey Road, Saltdean, Brighton, BN2 8DE | 30 March 2026 | £483,000 |
| 10, Hamsey Road, Saltdean, Brighton, BN2 8DE | 6 March 2025 | £375,000 |
| 22, Hamsey Road, Saltdean, Brighton, BN2 8DE | 9 November 2023 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.2 km
Saltdean Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Telscombe Cliffs Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.9 km
Peacehaven Heights Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 533
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 228
- Anti social behaviour 82
- Public order 45
- Criminal damage and arson 45
- Other theft 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 63
- 36 female, 27 male
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- BN2 8 residents
- 8,700
Age bands in BN2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- 1,212 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- 761 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.8%
- 1,734 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.6%
- 2,683 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 27.1%
- 2,375 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN2 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
SALTDEAN AND ROTTINGDEAN MED PRACTICE
GRAND OCEAN MEDICAL CENTRE, LONGRIDGE AVENUE, SALTDEAN, BRIGHTON, BN2 8BU
ODS code G81076
516 m
HAVENSHEALTH
ANCHOR HEALTHCARE CENTRE, MERIDIAN WAY, PEACEHAVEN, BN10 8NF
ODS code G81100
2.1 km
Nearby transport
- 193 m
Martlet House
BCT · East Saltdean
- 219 m
Telscombe Tye
BCT · East Saltdean
- 237 m
Telscombe Tye
BCT · East Saltdean
- 243 m
Cissbury Crescent
BCT · East Saltdean
- 245 m
Bannings Vale
BCT · East Saltdean
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 006E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,593 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Saltdean Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.2 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
533 published events cover 12 months, averaging 44 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 228 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.