Schools
65 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 9 secondary schools. St Christopher's School is the nearest published school at 462 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN3 4HZ
Wish · Brighton and Hove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wish
- Local authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Hove and Portslade
- Postcode district
- BN3
- Postcode sector
- BN3 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN3 4HZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN3
- Postcode sector
- BN3 4
- Latitude
- 50.828677
- Longitude
- -0.189545
- British National Grid easting
- 527,600
- British National Grid northing
- 104,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Brighton and Hove · E06000043
- Electoral ward
- Wish · E05015419
- Parish or community
- E43000034
- Westminster constituency
- Hove and Portslade · E14001296
- Output area
- E00085799
- Lower layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 023B · E01016989
- Middle layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 023 · E02003513
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 BN3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 65
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 9
- 462 m
St Christopher's School
Other independent school
- 642 m
Hove Junior School
Community school
- 642 m
West Hove Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,804
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,049
- Shoplifting 698
- Anti social behaviour 590
- Public order 311
- Other theft 290
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN3 4 residents
- 8,178
Age bands in BN3 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.4%
1,317 residents
742 residents
2,081 residents
2,591 residents
1,521 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
22
within 5 km straight-line
WISH PARK SURGERY
191A PORTLAND ROAD, HOVE, BN3 5JA
ODS code G81083
595 m
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GOLDSTONE VILLAS, HOVE, BN3 3AT
ODS code G81070
1.3 km
PORTSLADE HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 1LX
ODS code G81046
1.8 km
HOVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST WAY, HOVE, BN3 8LD
ODS code G81001
1.9 km
CHARTER MEDICAL CENTRE
88 DAVIGDOR ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1RF
ODS code G81034
2.3 km
WELLBN HEALTHCARE
18-19 WESTERN ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1AE
ODS code G81638
2.4 km
MONTPELIER SURGERY
2 VICTORIA ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3FS
ODS code G81044
2.9 km
SEVEN DIALS MEDICAL CENTRE
24 MONTPELIER CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 3JJ
ODS code G81047
2.9 km
BEACONSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81042
3.1 km
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81038
3.1 km
BRIGHTON STATION HEALTH CENTRE
ASPECT HOUSE, 84-87 QUEENS ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3XE
ODS code Y02676
3.4 km
SHIP STREET SURGERY
65-67 SHIP STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 1AE
ODS code G81694
3.5 km
PRESTON PARK SURGERY
2A FLORENCE ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6DP
ODS code G81018
3.6 km
MILE OAK MEDICAL CENTRE
CHALKY ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 2WF
ODS code G81073
3.6 km
THE HAVEN PRACTICE
100 BEACONSFIELD VILLAS, BRIGHTON, BN1 6HE
ODS code G81646
3.7 km
REGENCY SURGERY
4 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1FZ
ODS code G81656
3.8 km
PAVILION SURGERY
2 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1EJ
ODS code G81054
3.8 km
ST. PETER'S MEDICAL CENTRE
30-36 OXFORD STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 4LA
ODS code G81011
3.8 km
ARCH HEALTHCARE
MORLEY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 9DH
ODS code G81689
3.9 km
ARDINGLY COURT SURGERY
1 ARDINGLY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 1SS
ODS code G81006
4.1 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Richardson Road
BCT · Hove
- 0.1 miles
Richardson Road
BCT · Hove
- 0.2 miles
The View
BCT · Hove
- 0.2 miles
Langdale Gardens
BCT · Hove
- 0.2 miles
Langdale Gardens
BCT · Hove
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Brighton and Hove 023B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,130 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
3,804 published events cover 12 months, averaging 317 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,049 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.