Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 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 1RW
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 1RW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN27
- Postcode sector
- BN27 1
- Latitude
- 50.886293
- Longitude
- 0.259982
- British National Grid easting
- 559,060
- British National Grid northing
- 112,078
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Hellingly · E05011648
- Parish or community
- E04003848
- Westminster constituency
- Sussex Weald · E14001533
- Output area
- E00181234
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 018H · E01034300
- 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 BN27
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.1 km
Hawkes Farm Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Hellingly Community Primary School
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- 2.1 km
Grovelands Community Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 672
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 301
- Anti social behaviour 153
- Criminal damage and arson 56
- Public order 37
- Other theft 33
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.
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+
- 75%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Gigabit-capable
- 75%
- 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
3
within 5 km
QUINTINS MEDICAL CENTRE
HAWKSWOOD ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 1UG
ODS code G81098
1.0 km
BRIDGESIDE SURGERY
1 WESTERN ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 3DG
ODS code G81012
2.7 km
HERSTMONCEUX INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CENTRE
HAILSHAM ROAD, HERSTMONCEUX, HAILSHAM, BN27 4JX
ODS code G81634
4.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Roebuck Park
BCT · Hellingly
- 0.1 miles
Roebuck Park
BCT · Hellingly
- 0.1 miles
Chichester Road
BCT · Hellingly
- 0.1 miles
Chichester Road
BCT · Hellingly
- 0.2 miles
Hornbeam Avenue
BCT · Hellingly
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 018H, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,134 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
672 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 301 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.