Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Earlswood Junior School is the nearest published school at 887 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH1 5BF
Earlswood & Whitebushes · Reigate and Banstead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- Reigate
- Postcode district
- RH1
- Postcode sector
- RH1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH1 5BF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 November 2019
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH1
- Postcode sector
- RH1 5
- Latitude
- 51.220758
- Longitude
- -0.161491
- British National Grid easting
- 528,488
- British National Grid northing
- 148,446
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Reigate and Banstead · E07000211
- Electoral ward
- Earlswood & Whitebushes · E05012874
- Parish or community
- E43000140
- Westminster constituency
- Reigate · E14001442
- Output area
- E00170393
- Lower layer super output area
- Reigate and Banstead 014C · E01030572
- Middle layer super output area
- Reigate and Banstead 014 · E02006388
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 RH1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 887 m
Earlswood Junior School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Earlswood Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Salfords Primary School and Nursery
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 999
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 494
- Public order 103
- Anti social behaviour 85
- Criminal damage and arson 81
- Other theft 74
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH1 5 residents
- 8,630
Age bands in RH1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
1,550 residents
861 residents
2,229 residents
2,487 residents
1,669 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
WOODLANDS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 WOODLANDS ROAD, REDHILL, RH1 6EY
ODS code H81058
1.3 km
THE HOUSE PARTNERSHIP
99 STATION ROAD, REDHILL, RH1 1EB
ODS code H81030
2.4 km
HAWTHORNS SURGERY
1 OXFORD ROAD, REDHILL, RH1 1DT
ODS code H81055
2.5 km
HOLMHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THORNTON SIDE, WATERCOLOUR, REDHILL, RH1 2NP
ODS code H81048
3.6 km
THE WALL HOUSE SURGERY
YORKE ROAD, REIGATE, RH2 9HG
ODS code H81089
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
East Surrey Hospital
BCT · Earlswood
- 0.2 miles
East Surrey Hospital
BCT · Earlswood
- 0.3 miles
Royal Earlswood Park
BCT · Earlswood
- 0.3 miles
Royal Earlswood Park
BCT · Earlswood
- 0.4 miles
Bushfield Drive
BCT · Whitebushes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reigate and Banstead 014C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,382 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
999 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 494 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.