Property market
The five-year median is £422,000 from 6 recorded sales in BN26 5DT. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wealden is £386,787 in June 2026, down 0.7% year on year.
BN26 5DT
Polegate South & Willingdon Watermill · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN26 5DT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 5
- Latitude
- 50.814389
- Longitude
- 0.244968
- British National Grid easting
- 558,247
- British National Grid northing
- 104,051
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
- E04003868
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00107844
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 021E · E01021236
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 021 · E02004423
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
Property
49 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 15, The Thatchings, Polegate, BN26 5DT | 9 January 2026 | £420,000 |
| 28, The Thatchings, Polegate, BN26 5DT | 4 December 2025 | £310,000 |
| 38, The Thatchings, Polegate, BN26 5DT | 29 November 2024 | £424,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 432 m
Willingdon Community School
Community school
- 662 m
Willingdon Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Polegate Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 841
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 254
- Anti social behaviour 165
- Shoplifting 142
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Public order 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 74
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- BN26 5 residents
- 6,041
43 female, 31 male
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
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN26 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 straight-line
MANOR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 5DJ
ODS code G81049
549 m
DOWNLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
77 HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 6AE
ODS code G81004
952 m
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
3.2 km
STONE CROSS SURGERY
MIMRAM ROAD, STONE CROSS, PEVENSEY, BN24 5DZ
ODS code G81008
3.2 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
153A VICTORIA DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN20 8NH
ODS code G81032
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Broad Road end
BCT · Lower Willingdon
- 0.1 miles
Park Croft
BCT · Polegate
- 0.1 miles
Park Croft
BCT · Polegate
- 0.1 miles
Broad Road end
BCT · Lower Willingdon
- 0.2 miles
Brightling Road
BCT · Polegate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 021E, 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
18,608 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
26 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Willingdon Community School is the nearest published school at 432 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
841 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 254 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.