Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. LVS Hassocks is the nearest published school at 474 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN6 9EJ
Downland Villages · Mid Sussex · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Downland Villages
- Local authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex
- Postcode district
- BN6
- Postcode sector
- BN6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN6 9EJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN6
- Postcode sector
- BN6 9
- Latitude
- 50.950212
- Longitude
- -0.201627
- British National Grid easting
- 526,420
- British National Grid northing
- 118,293
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
- E04009990
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Sussex · E14001366
- Output area
- E00161990
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 016E · E01031771
- 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 BN6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 474 m
LVS Hassocks
Other independent special school
- 1.6 km
Albourne Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Twineham CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 54
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Burglary 6
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Other theft 4
- Vehicle crime 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN6 9 residents
- 9,805
Age bands in BN6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
2,041 residents
1,073 residents
2,087 residents
2,905 residents
2,094 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
MID SUSSEX HEALTH CARE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, TRINITY ROAD, HURSTPIERPOINT, HASSOCKS, BN6 9UQ
ODS code H82057
2.6 km
MEADOWS SURGERY
TEMPLE GROVE, GATEHOUSE LN, BURGESS HILL, RH15 9XN
ODS code H82003
3.7 km
BROW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE BROW, BURGESS HILL, RH15 9BS
ODS code H82084
4.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Furzeland Way
BCT · Sayers Common
- 0.2 miles
School
BCT · Sayers Common
- 0.2 miles
Furzeland Way
BCT · Sayers Common
- 0.3 miles
School
BCT · Sayers Common
- 0.4 miles
Coombe Wood
BCT · Sayers Common
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Sussex 016E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,547 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
54 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.