Property market
The five-year median is £323,750 from 8 recorded sales in BN26 6GU. 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 6GU
Polegate Central · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN26 6GU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 6
- Latitude
- 50.821910
- Longitude
- 0.270432
- British National Grid easting
- 560,015
- British National Grid northing
- 104,942
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Polegate Central · E05011655
- Parish or community
- E04003860
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00181209
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 019G · E01034305
- 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
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Thistle Place, Polegate, BN26 6GU | 31 October 2024 | £294,364 |
| 6, Thistle Place, Polegate, BN26 6GU | 4 October 2024 | £287,000 |
| 5, Thistle Place, Polegate, BN26 6GU | 1 October 2024 | £375,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.6 km
Stone Cross School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Polegate Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Hazel Court School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 544
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 211
- Anti social behaviour 109
- Criminal damage and arson 59
- Public order 41
- Other theft 34
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN26 6 residents
- 7,119
Age bands in BN26 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.7%
1,201 residents
582 residents
1,737 residents
1,906 residents
1,876 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.
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
STONE CROSS SURGERY
MIMRAM ROAD, STONE CROSS, PEVENSEY, BN24 5DZ
ODS code G81008
1.5 km
DOWNLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
77 HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 6AE
ODS code G81004
1.9 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 5DJ
ODS code G81049
2.0 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
3.1 km
BRIDGESIDE SURGERY
1 WESTERN ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 3DG
ODS code G81012
4.6 km
HARBOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 PACIFIC DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN23 6DW
ODS code Y00080
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chaucer Industrial Estate
BCT · Dittons
- 0.1 miles
Chaucer Industrial Estate
BCT · Dittons
- 0.2 miles
Downley
BCT · Dittons
- 0.2 miles
Downley
BCT · Dittons
- 0.2 miles
Dittons Farm
BCT · Dittons
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 019G, 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
19,461 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 5 secondary schools. Stone Cross School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
544 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 211 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.