Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Harlands Primary School is the nearest published school at 608 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH16 1XW
Ardingly, Balcombe & Turners Hill · Mid Sussex · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex
- Postcode district
- RH16
- Postcode sector
- RH16 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH16 1XW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH16
- Postcode sector
- RH16 1
- Latitude
- 51.016340
- Longitude
- -0.113812
- British National Grid easting
- 532,400
- British National Grid northing
- 125,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mid Sussex · E07000228
- Electoral ward
- Ardingly, Balcombe & Turners Hill · E05014708
- Parish or community
- E04013308
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Sussex · E14001366
- Output area
- E00161784
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 007D · E01031727
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 007 · E02006610
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 608 m
Harlands Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, Cuckfield
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Oathall Community College
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 330
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 98
- Anti social behaviour 64
- Other theft 34
- Criminal damage and arson 25
- Public order 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH16 1 residents
- 7,613
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
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CUCKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
GLEBE ROAD, CUCKFIELD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH17 5BQ
ODS code H82005
1.8 km
DOLPHINS PRACTICE
NIGHTINGALE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BUTLERS GREEN ROAD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 4BN
ODS code H82044
1.8 km
NEWTONS PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CNTRE, HEATH ROAD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3BB
ODS code H82056
1.9 km
LINDFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
57 HIGH STREET, LINDFIELD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 2HX
ODS code H82035
2.3 km
NORTHLANDS WOOD SURGERY
7 WALNUT PARK, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3TG
ODS code H82100
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
The Spinney
BCT · Haywards Heath
- 0.2 miles
The Spinney
BCT · Haywards Heath
- 0.4 miles
Turners Mill Road
BCT · Haywards Heath
- 0.5 miles
Turners Mill Road
BCT · Haywards Heath
- 0.5 miles
Harland Close
BCT · Haywards Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Sussex 007D, 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
26,476 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
330 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 98 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.