Property market
The five-year median is £2,162,500 from 2 recorded sales in BN26 5SD. 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 5SD
South Downs · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN26 5SD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 5
- Latitude
- 50.813422
- Longitude
- 0.213689
- British National Grid easting
- 556,047
- British National Grid northing
- 103,877
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- South Downs · E05011658
- Parish or community
- E04003855
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00107529
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 018C · E01021166
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 018 · E02004420
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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lark Rise, Folkington, Polegate, BN26 5SD | 4 October 2024 | £1,575,000 |
| The Old Rectory, Folkington, Polegate, BN26 5SD | 27 January 2023 | £2,750,000 |
| Lark Rise, Folkington, Polegate, BN26 5SD | 12 January 2021 | £1,332,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.9 km
Willingdon Community School
Community school
- 2.1 km
Willingdon Primary School
Community school
- 2.7 km
Polegate Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Public order 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- BN26 5 residents
- 6,041
13 female, 13 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 0.4% 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+
- 90.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 90.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 90.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90.9%
- 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
MANOR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 5DJ
ODS code G81049
2.1 km
DOWNLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
77 HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 6AE
ODS code G81004
2.4 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
5.0 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
153A VICTORIA DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN20 8NH
ODS code G81032
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Folkington Road
BCT · Polegate
- 0.8 miles
Folkington Road
BCT · Polegate
- 0.8 miles
Sunstar Lane
BCT · Polegate
- 0.9 miles
Sunstar Lane
BCT · Polegate
- 1.0 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Wannock
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 018C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,329 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 1
- 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
16 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 3 secondary schools. Willingdon Community School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
11 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.