Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Breakwater Academy is the nearest published school at 243 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN9 9YQ
Newhaven North · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Newhaven North
- Local authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- Lewes
- Postcode district
- BN9
- Postcode sector
- BN9 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN9 9YQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 April 2004
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN9
- Postcode sector
- BN9 9
- Latitude
- 50.791866
- Longitude
- 0.033757
- British National Grid easting
- 543,438
- British National Grid northing
- 101,116
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Lewes · E07000063
- Electoral ward
- Newhaven North · E05011590
- Parish or community
- E04003778
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00106905
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 009C · E01021050
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewes 009 · E02004387
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 BN9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 243 m
Breakwater Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 725 m
Seahaven Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 754 m
Harbour Primary and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,634
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 601
- Anti social behaviour 279
- Shoplifting 146
- Criminal damage and arson 144
- Public order 135
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN9 9 residents
- 9,755
Age bands in BN9 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
1,995 residents
1,110 residents
2,472 residents
2,381 residents
1,817 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 straight-line
NEWHAVEN MEDICAL CENTRE
5-8 NEWHAVEN SQUARE, NEWHAVEN, BN9 9QS
ODS code G81061
1.1 km
QUAYSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 NEWHAVEN SQUARE, NEWHAVEN, BN9 9QS
ODS code G81016
1.1 km
HAVENSHEALTH
ANCHOR HEALTHCARE CENTRE, MERIDIAN WAY, PEACEHAVEN, BN10 8NF
ODS code G81100
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Fairway
BCT · Newhaven
- 0.1 miles
The Fairway
BCT · Newhaven
- 0.2 miles
Peacehaven Golf Club
BCT · Newhaven
- 0.2 miles
Blakeney Avenue
BCT · Newhaven
- 0.2 miles
Blakeney Avenue
BCT · Newhaven
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 009C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,337 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
1,634 published events cover 12 months, averaging 136.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 601 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.