Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. King's Academy Ringmer is the nearest published school at 711 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN8 5PH
Ouse Valley & Ringmer · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN8 5PH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN8
- Postcode sector
- BN8 5
- Latitude
- 50.900272
- Longitude
- 0.073847
- British National Grid easting
- 545,925
- British National Grid northing
- 113,248
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Lewes · E07000063
- Electoral ward
- Ouse Valley & Ringmer · E05011593
- Parish or community
- E04003783
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00106931
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 004C · E01021056
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewes 004 · E02004382
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 BN8
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Brook Cottage, Broyle Lane, Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5PH | 17 March 2021 | £515,000 |
| Sarnic, Broyle Lane, Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5PH | 29 January 2021 | £425,000 |
| Redruth, Broyle Lane, Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5PH | 10 February 2017 | £290,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 711 m
King's Academy Ringmer
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Ringmer Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 4.3 km
Laughton Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 190
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 91
- Anti social behaviour 35
- Criminal damage and arson 21
- Public order 15
- Other theft 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- BN8 5 residents
- 6,200
18 female, 16 male
Age bands in BN8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 30%
993 residents
510 residents
1,109 residents
1,769 residents
1,879 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 87.5%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Broyle Paddock
BCT · Broyle Estate
- 0.0 miles
Broyle Paddock
BCT · Broyle Estate
- 0.1 miles
Broyleside
BCT · Broyle Estate
- 0.1 miles
Broyleside
BCT · Broyle Estate
- 0.1 miles
Yew Tree Close
BCT · Broyle Estate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 004C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,839 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 5
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
190 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 91 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.