Property market
The five-year median is £258,750 from 2 recorded sales in BN20 7RL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Eastbourne is £251,811 in June 2026, down 3.7% year on year.
BN20 7RL
Meads · Eastbourne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Eastbourne
- Ward
- Meads
- Local authority
- Eastbourne
- Constituency
- Eastbourne
- Postcode district
- BN20
- Postcode sector
- BN20 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN20 7RL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN20
- Postcode sector
- BN20 7
- Latitude
- 50.755004
- Longitude
- 0.268100
- British National Grid easting
- 560,079
- British National Grid northing
- 97,498
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Eastbourne · E07000061
- Electoral ward
- Meads · E05011577
- Parish or community
- E43000055
- Westminster constituency
- Eastbourne · E14001219
- Output area
- E00106258
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastbourne 012F · E01034298
- Middle layer super output area
- Eastbourne 012 · E02004367
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 BN20
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Meads Gate, Flat 2, Meads Street, Eastbourne, BN20 7RL | 6 November 2023 | £282,500 |
| Meads Gate, Flat 5, Meads Street, Eastbourne, BN20 7RL | 18 February 2022 | £235,000 |
| Meads Gate, Flat 3, Meads Street, Eastbourne, BN20 7RL | 23 September 2020 | £229,650 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 126 m
St Andrew's Prep
Other independent school
- 339 m
Bede's Prep School
Other independent school
- 529 m
St John's Meads Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 842
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 297
- Anti social behaviour 161
- Criminal damage and arson 74
- Public order 68
- Other theft 64
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- BN20 7 residents
- 5,993
3 female, 4 male
Age bands in BN20 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 45.5%
446 residents
568 residents
865 residents
1,355 residents
2,701 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN20 7 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
7
within 5 km
THE LIGHTHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
6 COLLEGE ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 4HY
ODS code G81003
1.5 km
GROVE ROAD SURGERY
59-63 GROVE ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 4TX
ODS code G81002
1.6 km
ARLINGTON ROAD SURGERY
1 ARLINGTON ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 1DH
ODS code G81050
1.6 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
153A VICTORIA DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN20 8NH
ODS code G81032
2.6 km
SEASIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
18 SHEEN ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 8DR
ODS code G81017
2.8 km
SOVEREIGN PRACTICE
PRINCES PARK HEALTH CTR, 7 WARTLING ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 7PG
ODS code G81022
3.8 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
4.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Ship
BCT · Meads
- 0.0 miles
All Saints
BCT · Meads
- 0.1 miles
Dalton Road
BCT · Meads
- 0.1 miles
Holywell Gardens
BCT · Meads
- 0.2 miles
Chesterfield Road
BCT · Meads
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastbourne 012F, 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
27,295 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
- 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
23 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Andrew's Prep is the nearest published school at 126 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
842 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 297 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.