Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Pennthorpe School is the nearest published school at 566 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH12 3HU
Rudgwick · Horsham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH12 3HU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2008
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH12
- Postcode sector
- RH12 3
- Latitude
- 51.085673
- Longitude
- -0.460332
- British National Grid easting
- 507,934
- British National Grid northing
- 132,945
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Horsham · E07000227
- Electoral ward
- Rudgwick · E05011827
- Parish or community
- E04009963
- Westminster constituency
- Horsham · E14001294
- Output area
- E00161529
- Lower layer super output area
- Horsham 005C · E01031674
- Middle layer super output area
- Horsham 005 · E02006592
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 RH12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 566 m
Pennthorpe School
Other independent school
- 852 m
Rudgwick Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Rikkyo School-in-England
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 49
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 20
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Other theft 5
- Vehicle crime 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH12 3 residents
- 11,822
Age bands in RH12 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
2,246 residents
1,059 residents
3,089 residents
3,169 residents
2,060 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
RUDGWICK MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, RUDGWICK, HORSHAM, RH12 3HB
ODS code H82027
838 m
LOXWOOD SURGERY
LOXWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE, FARM CLOSE, LOXWOOD, BILLINGSHURST, RH14 0SU
ODS code H82031
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Fox
BCT · Bucks Green
- 0.1 miles
Haven Road
BCT · Bucks Green
- 0.1 miles
Haven Road
BCT · Bucks Green
- 0.3 miles
Queen Elizabeth Road
BCT · Rudgwick
- 0.4 miles
Queen Elizabeth Road
BCT · Rudgwick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Horsham 005C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,142 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
49 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 20 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.