Property market
The five-year median is £367,500 from 4 recorded sales in RH16 1DF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Mid Sussex is £426,441 in June 2026, down 0.9% year on year.
RH16 1DF
Haywards Heath Bentswood & Heath · Mid Sussex · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Haywards Heath
- Local authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex
- Postcode district
- RH16
- Postcode sector
- RH16 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH16 1DF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH16
- Postcode sector
- RH16 1
- Latitude
- 51.005783
- Longitude
- -0.100585
- British National Grid easting
- 533,358
- British National Grid northing
- 124,650
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mid Sussex · E07000228
- Electoral ward
- Haywards Heath Bentswood & Heath · E05014728
- Parish or community
- E04009988
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Sussex · E14001366
- Output area
- E00161946
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 009H · E01035347
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 009 · E02006612
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 RH16
Property
33 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Park View, Haywards Heath, RH16 1DF | 19 July 2023 | £465,000 |
| 1, Park View, Haywards Heath, RH16 1DF | 4 November 2022 | £490,000 |
| 8, Park View, Haywards Heath, RH16 1DF | 4 November 2022 | £270,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 588 m
Oathall Community College
Community school
- 709 m
Warden Park Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 897 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,364
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 468
- Anti social behaviour 255
- Public order 143
- Criminal damage and arson 109
- Other theft 97
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 38
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- RH16 1 residents
- 7,613
19 female, 19 male
Age bands in RH16 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.7%
1,246 residents
612 residents
1,922 residents
1,870 residents
1,479 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RH16 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
NEWTONS PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CNTRE, HEATH ROAD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3BB
ODS code H82056
613 m
DOLPHINS PRACTICE
NIGHTINGALE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BUTLERS GREEN ROAD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 4BN
ODS code H82044
1.3 km
LINDFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
57 HIGH STREET, LINDFIELD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 2HX
ODS code H82035
1.6 km
NORTHLANDS WOOD SURGERY
7 WALNUT PARK, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3TG
ODS code H82100
1.7 km
CUCKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
GLEBE ROAD, CUCKFIELD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH17 5BQ
ODS code H82005
2.6 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
- 0.1 miles
Sydney Road
BCT · Haywards Heath
- 0.1 miles
Sydney Road
BCT · Haywards Heath
- 0.1 miles
Perrymount Road
BCT · Haywards Heath
- 0.1 miles
Perrymount Road
BCT · Haywards Heath
- 0.2 miles
Haywards Heath Rail Station
TXR · Haywards Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Sussex 009H, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,012 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Oathall Community College is the nearest published school at 588 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,364 published events cover 12 months, averaging 113.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 468 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.