Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Saltdean Primary School is the nearest published school at 591 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN2 8QY
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN2 8QY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN2
- Postcode sector
- BN2 8
- Latitude
- 50.811771
- Longitude
- -0.034054
- British National Grid easting
- 538,600
- British National Grid northing
- 103,200
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
- E00085610
- Lower layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 033A · E01016956
- 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
- 14
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 591 m
Saltdean Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
St Margaret's CofE Primary School, Rottingdean
Voluntary aided school
- 1.9 km
Our Lady of Lourdes RC School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 341
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 132
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Public order 35
- Criminal damage and arson 28
- Other theft 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN2 8 residents
- 8,700
Age bands in BN2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.1%
1,212 residents
761 residents
1,734 residents
2,683 residents
2,375 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
SALTDEAN AND ROTTINGDEAN MED PRACTICE
GRAND OCEAN MEDICAL CENTRE, LONGRIDGE AVENUE, SALTDEAN, BRIGHTON, BN2 8BU
ODS code G81076
1.1 km
HAVENSHEALTH
ANCHOR HEALTHCARE CENTRE, MERIDIAN WAY, PEACEHAVEN, BN10 8NF
ODS code G81100
2.9 km
WOODINGDEAN MEDICAL CENTRE
WARREN ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 6BA
ODS code G81065
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Saltdean Vale Shops
BCT · Saltdean
- 0.0 miles
Saltdean Vale Shops
BCT · Saltdean
- 0.0 miles
Saltdean Vale Shops
BCT · Saltdean
- 0.1 miles
Coombe Vale Middle
BCT · Saltdean
- 0.1 miles
Arlington Gardens
BCT · Saltdean
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Brighton and Hove 033A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,292 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
341 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 132 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.