Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. King's School is the nearest published school at 2.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN4 7DE
Downland Villages · Mid Sussex · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Downland Villages
- Local authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex
- Postcode district
- BN4
- Postcode sector
- BN4 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN4 7DE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN4
- Postcode sector
- BN4 7
- Latitude
- 50.893610
- Longitude
- -0.201249
- British National Grid easting
- 526,600
- British National Grid northing
- 112,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mid Sussex · E07000228
- Electoral ward
- Downland Villages · E05014719
- Parish or community
- E04009994
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Sussex · E14001366
- Output area
- E00162004
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 016D · E01031770
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 016 · E02006619
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 BN4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 4.4 km
King's School
Free schools
- 4.5 km
West Blatchington Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 4.6 km
Westdene Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 25
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Other theft 3
- Burglary 2
GP practices
1
within 5 km
MID SUSSEX HEALTH CARE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, TRINITY ROAD, HURSTPIERPOINT, HASSOCKS, BN6 9UQ
ODS code H82057
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Recreation Ground
BCT · Poynings
- 0.4 miles
Recreation Ground
BCT · Poynings
- 0.5 miles
Crossways Cottages
BCT · Newtimber
- 0.5 miles
Crossways Cottages
BCT · Newtimber
- 0.6 miles
Beggar's Lane
BCT · Newtimber
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Sussex 016D, 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
19,658 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
25 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.