Property market
The five-year median is £231,500 from 3 recorded sales in BN23 8BU. 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 8BU
Langney · Eastbourne · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Eastbourne
- Ward
- Langney
- Local authority
- Eastbourne
- Constituency
- Eastbourne
- Postcode district
- BN23
- Postcode sector
- BN23 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN23 8BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN23
- Postcode sector
- BN23 8
- Latitude
- 50.804503
- Longitude
- 0.297251
- British National Grid easting
- 561,964
- British National Grid northing
- 103,065
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Eastbourne · E07000061
- Electoral ward
- Langney · E05011576
- Parish or community
- E43000055
- Westminster constituency
- Eastbourne · E14001219
- Output area
- E00167665
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastbourne 001B · E01020925
- Middle layer super output area
- Eastbourne 001 · E02004356
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
33 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 61, Foxglove Road, Eastbourne, BN23 8BU | 14 November 2025 | £260,000 |
| 15, Foxglove Road, Eastbourne, BN23 8BU | 29 July 2024 | £222,500 |
| 67, Foxglove Road, Eastbourne, BN23 8BU | 15 July 2024 | £231,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 522 m
Shinewater Primary School
Academy converter
- 562 m
West Rise Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 586 m
The Turing School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,837
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 867
- Shoplifting 600
- Anti social behaviour 440
- Criminal damage and arson 207
- Public order 168
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 101
- Postcode households
- 39
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- BN23 8 residents
- 7,889
48 female, 53 male
Age bands in BN23 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
1,503 residents
977 residents
2,024 residents
2,277 residents
1,444 residents
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN23 8 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
11
within 5 km
STONE CROSS SURGERY
MIMRAM ROAD, STONE CROSS, PEVENSEY, BN24 5DZ
ODS code G81008
1.5 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
1.8 km
HARBOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 PACIFIC DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN23 6DW
ODS code Y00080
2.4 km
SOVEREIGN PRACTICE
PRINCES PARK HEALTH CTR, 7 WARTLING ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 7PG
ODS code G81022
2.6 km
SEASIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
18 SHEEN ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN22 8DR
ODS code G81017
3.4 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 5DJ
ODS code G81049
4.2 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
153A VICTORIA DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN20 8NH
ODS code G81032
4.2 km
DOWNLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
77 HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 6AE
ODS code G81004
4.3 km
ARLINGTON ROAD SURGERY
1 ARLINGTON ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 1DH
ODS code G81050
4.3 km
GROVE ROAD SURGERY
59-63 GROVE ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 4TX
ODS code G81002
4.3 km
THE LIGHTHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
6 COLLEGE ROAD, EASTBOURNE, BN21 4HY
ODS code G81003
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
- 0.1 miles
Primrose Close
BCT · Shinewater
- 0.1 miles
Foxglove Road
BCT · Shinewater
- 0.1 miles
Foxglove Road
BCT · Shinewater
- 0.1 miles
Sorrel Drive
BCT · Shinewater
- 0.1 miles
Sorrel Drive
BCT · Shinewater
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastbourne 001B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,660 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. Shinewater Primary School is the nearest published school at 522 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,837 published events cover 12 months, averaging 236.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 867 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.