Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hailsham Academy is the nearest published school at 155 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN27 1EE
Hailsham West · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hailsham West
- Local authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald
- Postcode district
- BN27
- Postcode sector
- BN27 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN27 1EE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN27
- Postcode sector
- BN27 1
- Latitude
- 50.864997
- Longitude
- 0.255257
- British National Grid easting
- 558,800
- British National Grid northing
- 109,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Hailsham West · E05011644
- Parish or community
- E04003845
- Westminster constituency
- Sussex Weald · E14001533
- Output area
- E00107599
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 016C · E01021182
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 016 · E02004418
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 BN27
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 0
- 155 m
Hailsham Academy
Academy converter
- 417 m
The Ropemakers' Academy
Free schools special
- 540 m
White House Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,645
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 598
- Anti social behaviour 337
- Criminal damage and arson 144
- Public order 137
- Shoplifting 122
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN27 1 residents
- 7,503
Age bands in BN27 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.6%
1,148 residents
676 residents
1,575 residents
1,793 residents
1,880 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
BRIDGESIDE SURGERY
1 WESTERN ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 3DG
ODS code G81012
357 m
QUINTINS MEDICAL CENTRE
HAWKSWOOD ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 1UG
ODS code G81098
1.4 km
DOWNLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
77 HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 6AE
ODS code G81004
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Old Railway Bridge
BCT · Hailsham
- 0.1 miles
Old Railway Bridge
BCT · Hailsham
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Hailsham
- 0.1 miles
Hailsham Community College
BCT · Hailsham
- 0.2 miles
Library
BCT · Hailsham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 016C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,979 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,645 published events cover 12 months, averaging 137.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 598 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.