Property market
The five-year median is £512,500 from 3 recorded sales in BN21 1SS. 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.
BN21 1SS
Old Town · Eastbourne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Eastbourne
- Ward
- Old Town
- Local authority
- Eastbourne
- Constituency
- Eastbourne
- Postcode district
- BN21
- Postcode sector
- BN21 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN21 1SS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN21
- Postcode sector
- BN21 1
- Latitude
- 50.778000
- Longitude
- 0.257041
- British National Grid easting
- 559,221
- British National Grid northing
- 100,031
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Eastbourne · E07000061
- Electoral ward
- Old Town · E05011578
- Parish or community
- E43000055
- Westminster constituency
- Eastbourne · E14001219
- Output area
- E00106294
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastbourne 009B · E01020939
- Middle layer super output area
- Eastbourne 009 · E02004364
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 BN21
Property
44 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 129, Milton Road, Eastbourne, BN21 1SS | 9 December 2025 | £520,000 |
| 131, Milton Road, Eastbourne, BN21 1SS | 6 December 2024 | £512,500 |
| 72, Milton Road, Eastbourne, BN21 1SS | 16 August 2024 | £370,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 264 m
Motcombe Infants' School
Community school
- 332 m
The South Downs School
Academy special converter
- 368 m
The Cavendish School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,186
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 649
- Violence and sexual offences 632
- Anti social behaviour 274
- Public order 169
- Criminal damage and arson 149
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 74
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- BN21 1 residents
- 7,327
33 female, 41 male
Age bands in BN21 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28%
1,071 residents
667 residents
1,593 residents
2,099 residents
2,110 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN21 1 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
9
within 5 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
153A VICTORIA DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN20 8NH
ODS code G81032
125 m
ARLINGTON ROAD SURGERY
1 ARLINGTON ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 1DH
ODS code G81050
1.8 km
GROVE ROAD SURGERY
59-63 GROVE ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 4TX
ODS code G81002
1.9 km
THE LIGHTHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
6 COLLEGE ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 4HY
ODS code G81003
2.2 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
2.4 km
SEASIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
18 SHEEN ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 8DR
ODS code G81017
2.7 km
SOVEREIGN PRACTICE
PRINCES PARK HEALTH CTR, 7 WARTLING ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 7PG
ODS code G81022
3.3 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 5DJ
ODS code G81049
4.7 km
STONE CROSS SURGERY
MIMRAM ROAD, STONE CROSS, PEVENSEY, BN24 5DZ
ODS code G81008
4.9 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
Albert Parade
BCT · Old Town
- 0.1 miles
Albert Parade
BCT · Old Town
- 0.1 miles
Beechy Avenue
BCT · Downside
- 0.1 miles
Northiam Road
BCT · Downside
- 0.1 miles
Northiam Road
BCT · Downside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastbourne 009B, 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
29,273 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
36 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. Motcombe Infants' School is the nearest published school at 264 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,186 published events cover 12 months, averaging 182.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 649 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.