Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lancing College is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN43 5FD
Buckingham · Adur · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shoreham-By-Sea
- Ward
- Buckingham
- Local authority
- Adur
- Constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham
- Postcode district
- BN43
- Postcode sector
- BN43 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN43 5FD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN43
- Postcode sector
- BN43 5
- Latitude
- 50.855164
- Longitude
- -0.289852
- British National Grid easting
- 520,468
- British National Grid northing
- 107,577
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Adur · E07000223
- Electoral ward
- Buckingham · E05007562
- Parish or community
- E43000147
- Westminster constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham · E14001218
- Output area
- E00159802
- Lower layer super output area
- Adur 002C · E01031340
- Middle layer super output area
- Adur 002 · E02006535
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 BN43
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Old Erringham Hall, Steyning Road, Shoreham-By-Sea, BN43 5FD | 16 October 2020 | £1,050,000 |
| Old Erringham Hall, Steyning Road, Shoreham-By-Sea, BN43 5FD | 31 July 1997 | £340,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.5 km
Lancing College
Other independent school
- 2.3 km
Swiss Gardens Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Buckingham Park Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 51
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 14
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Public order 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- BN43 5 residents
- 12,086
9 female, 7 male
Age bands in BN43 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.4%
1,944 residents
964 residents
2,606 residents
3,519 residents
3,071 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN43 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.
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
- 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
ADUR HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, POND ROAD, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA, BN43 5US
ODS code H82023
2.6 km
THE ORCHARD SURGERY
PENSTONE PARK, LANCING, BN15 9AG
ODS code H82096
3.9 km
NEW POND ROW SURGERY
35 SOUTH STREET, LANCING, BN15 8AN
ODS code H82091
4.1 km
BALL TREE SURGERY
WESTERN ROAD NORTH, SOMPTING, LANCING, BN15 9UX
ODS code H82065
4.3 km
MILE OAK MEDICAL CENTRE
CHALKY ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 2WF
ODS code G81073
4.5 km
STEYNING HEALTH CENTRE
TANYARD LANE, STEYNING, BN44 3RJ
ODS code H82022
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Erringham Farm
BCT · Shoreham-by-Sea
- 0.4 miles
Erringham Farm
BCT · Shoreham-by-Sea
- 0.5 miles
Stocks Mead
BCT · Shoreham-by-Sea
- 0.5 miles
Stocks Mead
BCT · Shoreham-by-Sea
- 0.7 miles
Old Cement Works
BCT · Upper Beeding
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Adur 002C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,915 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 1
- 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
51 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.