Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 9 secondary schools. Hove Junior School is the nearest published school at 255 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN3 5NX
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN3 5NX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1983
- Terminated
- 1 May 2024
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN3
- Postcode sector
- BN3 5
- Latitude
- 50.835376
- Longitude
- -0.194726
- British National Grid easting
- 527,217
- British National Grid northing
- 105,536
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
- E00085816
- Lower layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 023C · E01016993
- 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
- 63
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 9
- 255 m
Hove Junior School
Community school
- 255 m
West Hove Infant School
Community school
- 486 m
The Lioncare School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,147
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,296
- Shoplifting 709
- Anti social behaviour 605
- Public order 380
- Other theft 312
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN3 5 residents
- 11,478
3 female, 2 male
Age bands in BN3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.7%
2,175 residents
1,135 residents
3,286 residents
3,439 residents
1,595 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN3 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
387 m
HOVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST WAY, HOVE, BN3 8LD
ODS code G81001
1.1 km
PORTSLADE HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 1LX
ODS code G81046
1.3 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GOLDSTONE VILLAS, HOVE, BN3 3AT
ODS code G81070
1.7 km
CHARTER MEDICAL CENTRE
88 DAVIGDOR ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1RF
ODS code G81034
2.7 km
MILE OAK MEDICAL CENTRE
CHALKY ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 2WF
ODS code G81073
2.9 km
WELLBN HEALTHCARE
18-19 WESTERN ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1AE
ODS code G81638
2.9 km
BEACONSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81042
3.3 km
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81038
3.3 km
MONTPELIER SURGERY
2 VICTORIA ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3FS
ODS code G81044
3.3 km
SEVEN DIALS MEDICAL CENTRE
24 MONTPELIER CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 3JJ
ODS code G81047
3.4 km
THE HAVEN PRACTICE
100 BEACONSFIELD VILLAS, BRIGHTON, BN1 6HE
ODS code G81646
3.8 km
PRESTON PARK SURGERY
2A FLORENCE ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6DP
ODS code G81018
3.8 km
BRIGHTON STATION HEALTH CENTRE
ASPECT HOUSE, 84-87 QUEENS ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3XE
ODS code Y02676
3.9 km
SHIP STREET SURGERY
65-67 SHIP STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 1AE
ODS code G81694
4.0 km
ST. PETER'S MEDICAL CENTRE
30-36 OXFORD STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 4LA
ODS code G81011
4.2 km
REGENCY SURGERY
4 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1FZ
ODS code G81656
4.4 km
ARCH HEALTHCARE
MORLEY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 9DH
ODS code G81689
4.4 km
PAVILION SURGERY
2 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1EJ
ODS code G81054
4.4 km
PARK CRESCENT HEALTH CENTRE
1 LEWES ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 3HP
ODS code G81028
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Coleman Avenue
BCT · Hove
- 0.1 miles
Coleman Avenue
BCT · Hove
- 0.1 miles
Olive Road
BCT · Hove
- 0.1 miles
Olive Road
BCT · Hove
- 0.2 miles
Bottom of Olive Road
BCT · Hove
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Brighton and Hove 023C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,156 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,147 published events cover 12 months, averaging 345.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,296 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.