Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. Polegate Primary School is the nearest published school at 268 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN26 9AY
Polegate North · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Polegate North
- Local authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Lewes
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN26 9AY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2010
- Terminated
- 1 May 2020
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 9
- Latitude
- 50.823413
- Longitude
- 0.244833
- British National Grid easting
- 558,207
- British National Grid northing
- 105,054
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Polegate North · E05011656
- Parish or community
- E04003860
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00107753
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 019B · E01021213
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 268 m
Polegate Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Willingdon Community School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Willingdon Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 646
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 194
- Shoplifting 125
- Anti social behaviour 119
- Criminal damage and arson 58
- Public order 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
DOWNLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
77 HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 6AE
ODS code G81004
73 m
MANOR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 5DJ
ODS code G81049
504 m
STONE CROSS SURGERY
MIMRAM ROAD, STONE CROSS, PEVENSEY, BN24 5DZ
ODS code G81008
3.3 km
PARK PRACTICE
BROADWATER WAY, EASTBOURNE, BN22 9PQ
ODS code G81104
3.9 km
BRIDGESIDE SURGERY
1 WESTERN ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 3DG
ODS code G81012
4.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
School Lane
BCT · Polegate
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Polegate
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Polegate
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Polegate
- 0.1 miles
School Lane
BCT · Polegate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 019B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,871 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
646 published events cover 12 months, averaging 53.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 194 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.