Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Eastbourne College is the nearest published school at 197 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN21 4HS
Meads · Eastbourne · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Ward
- Meads
- Local authority
- Eastbourne
- Constituency
- Eastbourne
- Postcode district
- BN21
- Postcode sector
- BN21 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN21 4HS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2002
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN21
- Postcode sector
- BN21 4
- Latitude
- 50.761400
- Longitude
- 0.281852
- British National Grid easting
- 561,027
- British National Grid northing
- 98,239
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
- E00181248
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastbourne 011C · E01020937
- Middle layer super output area
- Eastbourne 011 · E02004366
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 197 m
Eastbourne College
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
Gildredge House
Free schools
- 1.3 km
St Andrew's Prep
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,237
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,897
- Anti social behaviour 705
- Shoplifting 604
- Public order 473
- Criminal damage and arson 393
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN21 4 residents
- 4,128
Age bands in BN21 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.6%
507 residents
558 residents
1,278 residents
1,065 residents
1,234 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
THE LIGHTHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
6 COLLEGE ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 4HY
ODS code G81003
471 m
GROVE ROAD SURGERY
59-63 GROVE ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 4TX
ODS code G81002
726 m
ARLINGTON ROAD SURGERY
1 ARLINGTON ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 1DH
ODS code G81050
812 m
SEASIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
18 SHEEN ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 8DR
ODS code G81017
1.6 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
153A VICTORIA DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN20 8NH
ODS code G81032
2.6 km
SOVEREIGN PRACTICE
PRINCES PARK HEALTH CTR, 7 WARTLING ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 7PG
ODS code G81022
2.7 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Grand Hotel
BCT · Meads
- 0.1 miles
Birley Centre
BCT · Eastbourne
- 0.1 miles
Grand Hotel
BCT · Meads
- 0.1 miles
Towner Gallery
BCT · Eastbourne
- 0.1 miles
Western Lawns
BCT · Meads
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastbourne 011C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,788 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,237 published events cover 12 months, averaging 436.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,897 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.