Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bede's Senior School is the nearest published school at 317 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN27 3YX
Arlington · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN27 3YX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN27
- Postcode sector
- BN27 3
- Latitude
- 50.869452
- Longitude
- 0.202855
- British National Grid easting
- 555,098
- British National Grid northing
- 110,084
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Arlington · E05011625
- Parish or community
- E04003830
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00107669
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 018K · E01034303
- 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
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 0
- 317 m
Bede's Senior School
Other independent school
- 598 m
Park Mead Primary School
Community school
- 3.2 km
Grovelands Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 26
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Other theft 6
- Public order 4
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN27 3 residents
- 12,532
Age bands in BN27 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 28%
1,901 residents
1,221 residents
2,515 residents
3,129 residents
3,415 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
2
within 5 km
BRIDGESIDE SURGERY
1 WESTERN ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 3DG
ODS code G81012
3.8 km
QUINTINS MEDICAL CENTRE
HAWKSWOOD ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 1UG
ODS code G81098
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
- 0.2 miles
Village Shop
BCT · Upper Dicker
- 0.2 miles
Village Shop
BCT · Upper Dicker
- 0.6 miles
Michelham Priory
BCT · Lower Dicker
- 1.0 miles
Swallow Business Park
BCT · Lower Dicker
- 1.0 miles
Swallow Business Park
BCT · Lower Dicker
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 018K, 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
16,741 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
26 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.