Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hambrook School is the nearest published school at 330 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH15 8FN
Burgess Hill Leylands · Mid Sussex · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex
- Postcode district
- RH15
- Postcode sector
- RH15 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH15 8FN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH15
- Postcode sector
- RH15 8
- Latitude
- 50.962895
- Longitude
- -0.136955
- British National Grid easting
- 530,927
- British National Grid northing
- 119,816
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mid Sussex · E07000228
- Electoral ward
- Burgess Hill Leylands · E05014712
- Parish or community
- E04013309
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Sussex · E14001366
- Output area
- E00161673
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 014A · E01031705
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 014 · E02006617
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 RH15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 330 m
Hambrook School
Other independent special school
- 393 m
Sheddingdean Community Primary School
Community school
- 789 m
The Gattons Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,927
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 630
- Anti social behaviour 372
- Criminal damage and arson 231
- Shoplifting 186
- Public order 158
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH15 8 residents
- 11,417
Age bands in RH15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.4%
1,817 residents
1,075 residents
2,901 residents
3,196 residents
2,169 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
BROW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE BROW, BURGESS HILL, RH15 9BS
ODS code H82084
820 m
MEADOWS SURGERY
TEMPLE GROVE, GATEHOUSE LN, BURGESS HILL, RH15 9XN
ODS code H82003
1.0 km
SILVERDALE PRACTICE
4 SILVERDALE ROAD, BURGESS HILL, RH15 0EF
ODS code H82072
1.6 km
MID SUSSEX HEALTH CARE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, TRINITY ROAD, HURSTPIERPOINT, HASSOCKS, BN6 9UQ
ODS code H82057
4.2 km
DOLPHINS PRACTICE
NIGHTINGALE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BUTLERS GREEN ROAD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 4BN
ODS code H82044
4.4 km
NEWTONS PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CNTRE, HEATH ROAD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3BB
ODS code H82056
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St John's Avenue
BCT · Burgess Hill
- 0.1 miles
Fairplace Hill
BCT · Burgess Hill
- 0.1 miles
Fairplace Hill
BCT · Burgess Hill
- 0.1 miles
Sidney West Centre
BCT · Burgess Hill
- 0.1 miles
Packham Way
BCT · Burgess Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Sussex 014A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,658 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
1,927 published events cover 12 months, averaging 160.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 630 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.