Schools
72 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 8 secondary schools. The Montessori Place is the nearest published school at 623 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN3 6AE
Goldsmid · Brighton and Hove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Goldsmid
- Local authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Hove and Portslade
- Postcode district
- BN3
- Postcode sector
- BN3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN3 6AE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2004
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN3
- Postcode sector
- BN3 6
- Latitude
- 50.835783
- Longitude
- -0.170609
- British National Grid easting
- 528,914
- British National Grid northing
- 105,623
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Brighton and Hove · E06000043
- Electoral ward
- Goldsmid · E05015401
- Parish or community
- E43000034
- Westminster constituency
- Hove and Portslade · E14001296
- Output area
- E00085149
- Lower layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 019E · E01016878
- Middle layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 019 · E02003509
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
- 72
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 8
- 623 m
The Montessori Place
Other independent school
- 642 m
St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 720 m
Cottesmore St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,810
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,428
- Anti social behaviour 746
- Shoplifting 637
- Public order 390
- Other theft 379
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN3 6 residents
- 11,230
Age bands in BN3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,821 residents
992 residents
2,346 residents
3,297 residents
2,099 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
27
within 5 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GOLDSTONE VILLAS, HOVE, BN3 3AT
ODS code G81070
516 m
CHARTER MEDICAL CENTRE
88 DAVIGDOR ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1RF
ODS code G81034
1.1 km
WISH PARK SURGERY
191A PORTLAND ROAD, HOVE, BN3 5JA
ODS code G81083
1.4 km
WELLBN HEALTHCARE
18-19 WESTERN ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1AE
ODS code G81638
1.6 km
BEACONSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81042
1.6 km
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81038
1.6 km
SEVEN DIALS MEDICAL CENTRE
24 MONTPELIER CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 3JJ
ODS code G81047
1.8 km
MONTPELIER SURGERY
2 VICTORIA ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3FS
ODS code G81044
1.8 km
HOVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST WAY, HOVE, BN3 8LD
ODS code G81001
2.0 km
THE HAVEN PRACTICE
100 BEACONSFIELD VILLAS, BRIGHTON, BN1 6HE
ODS code G81646
2.1 km
PRESTON PARK SURGERY
2A FLORENCE ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6DP
ODS code G81018
2.1 km
BRIGHTON STATION HEALTH CENTRE
ASPECT HOUSE, 84-87 QUEENS ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3XE
ODS code Y02676
2.2 km
ST. PETER'S MEDICAL CENTRE
30-36 OXFORD STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 4LA
ODS code G81011
2.6 km
SHIP STREET SURGERY
65-67 SHIP STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 1AE
ODS code G81694
2.6 km
ARCH HEALTHCARE
MORLEY STREET, BRIGHTON, BN2 9DH
ODS code G81689
2.8 km
REGENCY SURGERY
4 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1FZ
ODS code G81656
2.9 km
PAVILION SURGERY
2 OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, BN1 1EJ
ODS code G81054
2.9 km
PARK CRESCENT HEALTH CENTRE
1 LEWES ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN2 3HP
ODS code G81028
2.9 km
PORTSLADE HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 1LX
ODS code G81046
3.0 km
SCHOOL HOUSE SURGERY
SCHOOL HOUSE, HERTFORD ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 7GF
ODS code G81613
3.1 km
Showing 20 of 27 matching practices.
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hove Rail Station
RLY · Hove
- 0.1 miles
Hove Rail Station
RSE · Hove
- 0.1 miles
Hove Railway Station
BCT · Hove
- 0.1 miles
Hove Railway Station
BCT · Hove
- 0.2 miles
Livingstone Road
BCT · Hove
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Brighton and Hove 019E, 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
20,835 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
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
4,810 published events cover 12 months, averaging 400.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,428 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.