Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. King's Academy Ringmer is the nearest published school at 276 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN8 5WR
Ouse Valley & Ringmer · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN8 5WR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN8
- Postcode sector
- BN8 5
- Latitude
- 50.896335
- Longitude
- 0.063547
- British National Grid easting
- 545,213
- British National Grid northing
- 112,790
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
- E00106934
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 2
- 276 m
King's Academy Ringmer
Academy converter
- 435 m
Ringmer Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 3.6 km
South Malling CofE Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 207
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 99
- Anti social behaviour 39
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Public order 16
- Other theft 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN8 5 residents
- 6,200
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
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
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
King's Academy
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.1 miles
King's Academy
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.1 miles
King's Academy Grounds
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.2 miles
Shepherds Way North
BCT · Ringmer
- 0.2 miles
Ringmer Green
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
207 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 99 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.