Schools
58 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 9 secondary schools. Benfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 593 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN3 7GD
Hangleton & Knoll · Brighton and Hove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hove
- Ward
- Hangleton & Knoll
- Local authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Hove and Portslade
- Postcode district
- BN3
- Postcode sector
- BN3 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN3 7GD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN3
- Postcode sector
- BN3 7
- Latitude
- 50.842032
- Longitude
- -0.204653
- British National Grid easting
- 526,500
- British National Grid northing
- 106,259
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Brighton and Hove · E06000043
- Electoral ward
- Hangleton & Knoll · E05015402
- Parish or community
- E43000034
- Westminster constituency
- Hove and Portslade · E14001296
- Output area
- E00085212
- Lower layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 013C · E01016881
- Middle layer super output area
- Brighton and Hove 013 · E02003503
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sainsbury's, 361 - 367, Old Shoreham Road, Hove, BN3 7GD | 17 July 2019 | £52,870,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 58
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 9
- 593 m
Benfield Primary School
Academy converter
- 804 m
Goldstone Primary School
Community school
- 841 m
St Nicolas CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,410
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,285
- Anti social behaviour 550
- Public order 319
- Shoplifting 266
- Criminal damage and arson 262
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN3 7 residents
- 11,000
Age bands in BN3 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.9%
2,145 residents
1,391 residents
2,734 residents
3,210 residents
1,664 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
16
within 5 km
HOVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST WAY, HOVE, BN3 8LD
ODS code G81001
734 m
PORTSLADE HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 1LX
ODS code G81046
1.1 km
WISH PARK SURGERY
191A PORTLAND ROAD, HOVE, BN3 5JA
ODS code G81083
1.4 km
MILE OAK MEDICAL CENTRE
CHALKY ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 2WF
ODS code G81073
1.9 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GOLDSTONE VILLAS, HOVE, BN3 3AT
ODS code G81070
2.6 km
CHARTER MEDICAL CENTRE
88 DAVIGDOR ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1RF
ODS code G81034
3.6 km
WELLBN HEALTHCARE
18-19 WESTERN ROAD, HOVE, BN3 1AE
ODS code G81638
3.9 km
BEACONSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81042
4.0 km
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
175 PRESTON ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6AG
ODS code G81038
4.0 km
SEVEN DIALS MEDICAL CENTRE
24 MONTPELIER CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 3JJ
ODS code G81047
4.2 km
MONTPELIER SURGERY
2 VICTORIA ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3FS
ODS code G81044
4.3 km
THE HAVEN PRACTICE
100 BEACONSFIELD VILLAS, BRIGHTON, BN1 6HE
ODS code G81646
4.4 km
PRESTON PARK SURGERY
2A FLORENCE ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 6DP
ODS code G81018
4.6 km
BRIGHTON STATION HEALTH CENTRE
ASPECT HOUSE, 84-87 QUEENS ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 3XE
ODS code Y02676
4.7 km
SHIP STREET SURGERY
65-67 SHIP STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 1AE
ODS code G81694
5.0 km
ADUR HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, POND ROAD, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA, BN43 5US
ODS code H82023
5.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's West Hove
BCS · Portslade
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's West Hove
BCS · Portslade
- 0.1 miles
Martin Road
BCT · Hove
- 0.1 miles
Martin Road
BCT · Hove
- 0.2 miles
Godwin Road middle
BCT · Hove
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Brighton and Hove 013C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,719 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 1
- 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
3,410 published events cover 12 months, averaging 284.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,285 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.