Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. The Ropemakers' Academy is the nearest published school at 208 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN27 9RU
Hailsham Central · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hailsham Central
- Local authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald
- Postcode district
- BN27
- Postcode sector
- BN27 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN27 9RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN27
- Postcode sector
- BN27 9
- Latitude
- 50.864904
- Longitude
- 0.259615
- British National Grid easting
- 559,107
- British National Grid northing
- 109,699
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Hailsham Central · E05011639
- Parish or community
- E04003845
- Westminster constituency
- Sussex Weald · E14001533
- Output area
- E00107574
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 015C · E01021176
- 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
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 208 m
The Ropemakers' Academy
Free schools special
- 236 m
White House Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 305 m
Hailsham Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,583
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 558
- Anti social behaviour 338
- Criminal damage and arson 143
- Public order 134
- Shoplifting 114
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
4
within 5 km
BRIDGESIDE SURGERY
1 WESTERN ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 3DG
ODS code G81012
422 m
QUINTINS MEDICAL CENTRE
HAWKSWOOD ROAD, HAILSHAM, BN27 1UG
ODS code G81098
1.4 km
HERSTMONCEUX INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CENTRE
HAILSHAM ROAD, HERSTMONCEUX, HAILSHAM, BN27 4JX
ODS code G81634
4.8 km
DOWNLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
77 HIGH STREET, POLEGATE, BN26 6AE
ODS code G81004
4.8 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
High Street
BCT · Hailsham
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Hailsham
- 0.2 miles
Hailsham Community College
BCT · Hailsham
- 0.2 miles
Vicarage Road
BCT · Hailsham
- 0.2 miles
Vicarage Road
BCT · Hailsham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 015C, 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
22,261 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
1,583 published events cover 12 months, averaging 131.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 558 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.