Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Alfriston School is the nearest published school at 364 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN26 5UB
South Downs · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- South Downs
- Local authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Lewes
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN26 5UB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 5
- Latitude
- 50.807515
- Longitude
- 0.155966
- British National Grid easting
- 552,000
- British National Grid northing
- 103,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- South Downs · E05011658
- Parish or community
- E04003829
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00107399
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 018B · E01021143
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 364 m
Alfriston School
Community school
- 3.8 km
Chyngton School
Academy converter
- 4.1 km
Cradle Hill Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Public order 7
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Drugs 1
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Star Lane
BCT · Alfriston
- 0.1 miles
Market Cross
BCT · Alfriston
- 0.1 miles
The Dene Car Park
BCT · Alfriston
- 0.1 miles
Coach Park
BCT · Alfriston
- 0.2 miles
Deans Road
BCT · Alfriston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 018B, 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
19,221 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.