Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hawkes Farm Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN27 1QU
Hellingly · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hellingly
- Local authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald
- Postcode district
- BN27
- Postcode sector
- BN27 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN27 1QU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN27
- Postcode sector
- BN27 1
- Latitude
- 50.878074
- Longitude
- 0.270559
- British National Grid easting
- 559,832
- British National Grid northing
- 111,187
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Hellingly · E05011648
- Parish or community
- E04003845
- Westminster constituency
- Sussex Weald · E14001533
- Output area
- E00181251
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 015A · E01021174
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 015 · E02004417
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
- 1.1 km
Hawkes Farm Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
The Ropemakers' Academy
Free schools special
- 1.5 km
Thornton Grove Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 679
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 289
- Anti social behaviour 170
- Criminal damage and arson 57
- Public order 35
- Other theft 34
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
QUINTINS MEDICAL CENTRE
HAWKSWOOD ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 1UG
ODS code G81098
564 m
BRIDGESIDE SURGERY
1 WESTERN ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 3DG
ODS code G81012
2.1 km
HERSTMONCEUX INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CENTRE
HAILSHAM ROAD, HERSTMONCEUX, HAILSHAM, BN27 4JX
ODS code G81634
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Park Gate
BCT · Upper Horsebridge
- 0.2 miles
Park Gate
BCT · Upper Horsebridge
- 0.3 miles
Amberstone Corner
BCT · Magham Down
- 0.3 miles
Amberstone Corner
BCT · Magham Down
- 0.3 miles
Harebeating Drive
BCT · Hailsham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 015A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,594 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
Recorded crime
679 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 289 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.