Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Alfriston School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN26 6US
Arlington · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN26 6US
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 6
- Latitude
- 50.831244
- Longitude
- 0.137177
- British National Grid easting
- 550,600
- British National Grid northing
- 105,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Arlington · E05011625
- Parish or community
- E04003828
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00170893
- 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
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.6 km
Alfriston School
Community school
- 4.4 km
Firle Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 7
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Vehicle crime 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Shoplifting 1
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rose Cottage
BCT · Alciston
- 0.3 miles
Alciston Road
BCT · Alciston
- 0.4 miles
Alciston Road
BCT · Alciston
- 0.6 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Selmeston
- 0.6 miles
The Barley Mow
BCT · Selmeston
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
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.