Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 0 secondary schools. William Penn School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH13 7DB
Southwater South & Shipley · Horsham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH13 7DB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2001
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH13
- Postcode sector
- RH13 7
- Latitude
- 51.009847
- Longitude
- -0.381932
- British National Grid easting
- 513,610
- British National Grid northing
- 124,631
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Horsham · E07000227
- Electoral ward
- Southwater South & Shipley · E05011829
- Parish or community
- E04012956
- Westminster constituency
- Horsham · E14001294
- Output area
- E00161224
- Lower layer super output area
- Horsham 010A · E01031611
- Middle layer super output area
- Horsham 010 · E02006597
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 RH13
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.3 km
William Penn School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.6 km
Barns Green Primary School
Community school
- 2.7 km
Shipley CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 3
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
SOUTHWATER HEALTH CENTRE, STATION ROAD, SOUTHWATER, HORSHAM, RH13 9HQ
ODS code H82092
2.7 km
BILLINGSHURST SURGERY
ROMAN WAY, BILLINGSHURST, RH14 9QZ
ODS code H82055
4.8 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
- 0.5 miles
Coolham Road junction
BCT · Brooks Green
- 0.6 miles
Coolham Road junction
BCT · Brooks Green
- 0.7 miles
Caravan Park
BCT · Brooks Green
- 0.7 miles
Caravan Park
BCT · Brooks Green
- 0.7 miles
Purveyor's Farm
BCT · Brooks Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Horsham 010A, 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
22,619 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
11 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.