Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hankham Primary School is the nearest published school at 562 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN24 5BQ
Stone Cross · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Stone Cross
- Local authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Lewes
- Postcode district
- BN24
- Postcode sector
- BN24 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN24 5BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN24
- Postcode sector
- BN24 5
- Latitude
- 50.831819
- Longitude
- 0.296262
- British National Grid easting
- 561,800
- British National Grid northing
- 106,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Stone Cross · E05011659
- Parish or community
- E04012657
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00107746
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 020C · E01021208
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 020 · E02004422
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 BN24
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 562 m
Hankham Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Stone Cross School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Hazel Court School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 40
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Public order 3
- Robbery 2
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN24 5 residents
- 7,466
Age bands in BN24 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.3%
1,282 residents
747 residents
1,661 residents
2,047 residents
1,556 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
STONE CROSS SURGERY
MIMRAM ROAD, STONE CROSS, PEVENSEY, BN24 5DZ
ODS code G81008
1.7 km
DOWNLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
77 HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 6AE
ODS code G81004
3.8 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 5DJ
ODS code G81049
4.0 km
HARBOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 PACIFIC DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN23 6DW
ODS code Y00080
4.3 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
4.3 km
BRIDGESIDE SURGERY
1 WESTERN ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 3DG
ODS code G81012
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Milton Street
BCT · Stone Cross
- 0.8 miles
Milton Street
BCT · Stone Cross
- 0.9 miles
Belle Vue
BCT · Stone Cross
- 0.9 miles
Belle Vue
BCT · Stone Cross
- 1.0 miles
The Crossways
BCT · Stone Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 020C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,437 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
40 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.