Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Polegate Primary School is the nearest published school at 707 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN26 5BH
Polegate South & Willingdon Watermill · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN26 5BH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 5
- Latitude
- 50.819226
- Longitude
- 0.250211
- British National Grid easting
- 558,600
- British National Grid northing
- 104,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Polegate South & Willingdon Watermill · E05011657
- Parish or community
- E04003860
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00107774
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 019D · E01021215
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 019 · E02004421
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 BN26
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 707 m
Polegate Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Willingdon Community School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Willingdon Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 860
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 268
- Anti social behaviour 167
- Shoplifting 136
- Criminal damage and arson 83
- Public order 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN26 5 residents
- 6,041
Age bands in BN26 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.4%
688 residents
457 residents
943 residents
1,737 residents
2,009 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
MANOR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 5DJ
ODS code G81049
534 m
DOWNLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
77 HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 6AE
ODS code G81004
595 m
STONE CROSS SURGERY
MIMRAM ROAD, STONE CROSS, PEVENSEY, BN24 5DZ
ODS code G81008
2.8 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
3.3 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
153A VICTORIA DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN20 8NH
ODS code G81032
4.7 km
BRIDGESIDE SURGERY
1 WESTERN ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 3DG
ODS code G81012
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Porters Way
BCT · Polegate
- 0.2 miles
Porters Way
BCT · Polegate
- 0.2 miles
Walnut Walk
BCT · Polegate
- 0.2 miles
Walnut Walk
BCT · Polegate
- 0.2 miles
Polegate Rail Station
RSE · Polegate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 019D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,251 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
860 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 268 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.