Property market
The five-year median is £229,750 from 4 recorded sales in BN8 5RG. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lewes is £367,918 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
BN8 5RG
Ouse Valley & Ringmer · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN8 5RG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN8
- Postcode sector
- BN8 5
- Latitude
- 50.894809
- Longitude
- 0.063906
- British National Grid easting
- 545,243
- British National Grid northing
- 112,621
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
- E00106936
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 004B · E01021055
- 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
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, The Maples, Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5RG | 12 June 2025 | £232,000 |
| 9, The Maples, Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5RG | 23 August 2024 | £212,000 |
| 6, The Maples, Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5RG | 28 March 2024 | £227,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 2
- 244 m
King's Academy Ringmer
Academy converter
- 264 m
Ringmer Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 3.5 km
South Malling CofE Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 202
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 95
- Anti social behaviour 38
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Public order 16
- Other theft 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- BN8 5 residents
- 6,200
10 female, 10 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 0.3% 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+
- 30.8%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 30.8%
- Gigabit-capable
- 30.8%
- 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
1
within 5 km
FOUNDRY HEALTHCARE LEWES
SCHOOL HILL PRACTICE, SCHOOL HILL H, 33 HIGH STREET, LEWES, BN7 2LU
ODS code G81021
4.4 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
- 0.1 miles
Shepherds Way North
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.1 miles
King's Academy
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.1 miles
King's Academy Grounds
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.1 miles
King's Academy
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.2 miles
Primary School
BCT · Ringmer
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 004B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,298 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 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
Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. King's Academy Ringmer is the nearest published school at 244 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
202 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 95 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.