Property market
The five-year median is £260,000 from 7 recorded sales in BN23 5QA. 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.
BN23 5QA
Sovereign · Eastbourne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Eastbourne
- Ward
- Sovereign
- Local authority
- Eastbourne
- Constituency
- Eastbourne
- Postcode district
- BN23
- Postcode sector
- BN23 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN23 5QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN23
- Postcode sector
- BN23 5
- Latitude
- 50.797802
- Longitude
- 0.334431
- British National Grid easting
- 564,607
- British National Grid northing
- 102,402
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Eastbourne · E07000061
- Electoral ward
- Sovereign · E05011581
- Parish or community
- E43000055
- Westminster constituency
- Eastbourne · E14001219
- Output area
- E00167651
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastbourne 014D · E01032833
- Middle layer super output area
- Eastbourne 014 · E02006858
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 BN23
Property
104 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Long Beach Close, Eastbourne, BN23 5QA | 19 September 2025 | £270,000 |
| 19c, Long Beach Close, Eastbourne, BN23 5QA | 26 August 2025 | £190,000 |
| 19a, Long Beach Close, Eastbourne, BN23 5QA | 7 May 2025 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.2 km
St Catherine's College
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- 1.4 km
The Haven Church of England Methodist Primary School
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- 1.4 km
Langney Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 866
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 266
- Anti social behaviour 163
- Shoplifting 130
- Public order 67
- Other theft 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 81
- Postcode households
- 35
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- BN23 5 residents
- 6,258
49 female, 32 male
Age bands in BN23 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 32%
727 residents
519 residents
1,158 residents
1,813 residents
1,985 residents
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN23 5 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
5
within 5 km
HARBOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 PACIFIC DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN23 6DW
ODS code Y00080
390 m
SOVEREIGN PRACTICE
PRINCES PARK HEALTH CTR, 7 WARTLING ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 7PG
ODS code G81022
2.9 km
STONE CROSS SURGERY
MIMRAM ROAD, STONE CROSS, PEVENSEY, BN24 5DZ
ODS code G81008
3.8 km
SEASIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
18 SHEEN ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 8DR
ODS code G81017
3.9 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
4.0 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
Eugene Way
BCT · Sovereign Harbour North
- 0.1 miles
Eugene Way
BCT · Sovereign Harbour North
- 0.1 miles
Samoa Way
BCT · Sovereign Harbour North
- 0.1 miles
Samoa Way
BCT · Sovereign Harbour North
- 0.2 miles
Tasmania Way
BCT · Sovereign Harbour North
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastbourne 014D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,032 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
25 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Catherine's College is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
866 published events cover 12 months, averaging 72.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 266 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.