Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. William Penn School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH13 8PN
Southwater South & Shipley · Horsham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH13 8PN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH13
- Postcode sector
- RH13 8
- Latitude
- 50.977465
- Longitude
- -0.401719
- British National Grid easting
- 512,300
- British National Grid northing
- 121,000
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
- E00161226
- 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
- 4
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.0 km
William Penn School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.2 km
Shipley CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.1 km
West Chiltington Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Public order 2
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH13 8 residents
- 6,055
Age bands in RH13 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
832 residents
569 residents
1,148 residents
2,018 residents
1,454 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
The Plantation
BCT · Coolham
- 0.5 miles
The Plantation
BCT · Coolham
- 0.5 miles
Sproutes Lane
BCT · Coolham
- 0.6 miles
Hunger Hill
BCT · Coolham
- 0.6 miles
Sproutes Lane
BCT · Coolham
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
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.