Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Worth School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH16 3QS
Ardingly, Balcombe & Turners Hill · Mid Sussex · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield
- Postcode district
- RH16
- Postcode sector
- RH16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH16 3QS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH16
- Postcode sector
- RH16 3
- Latitude
- 51.081785
- Longitude
- -0.101157
- British National Grid easting
- 533,100
- British National Grid northing
- 133,100
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
- E04009980
- Westminster constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield · E14001212
- Output area
- E00167738
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 006A · E01031694
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 006 · E02006609
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
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.7 km
Worth School
Other independent school
- 2.3 km
Philpots Manor School
Other independent special school
- 2.6 km
Turners Hill Church of England Primary School
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH16 3 residents
- 10,442
Age bands in RH16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,957 residents
1,080 residents
3,076 residents
2,841 residents
2,064 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
SAXONBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
MAIDENBOWER SQUARE, CRAWLEY, RH10 7QH
ODS code H82026
4.6 km
MODALITY MID SUSSEX
CRAWLEY DOWN HEALTH CENTRE, BOWERS PLACE, CRAWLEY DOWN, CRAWLEY, RH10 4HY
ODS code H82040
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
Kew Wakehurst
BCT · Wakehurst Place
- 1.2 miles
Kew Wakehurst
BCT · Wakehurst Place
- 1.3 miles
Tarana
BCT · Turners Hill
- 1.3 miles
Tarana
BCT · Turners Hill
- 1.5 miles
Withypitts Pond
BCT · Turners Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Sussex 006A, 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
23,407 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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.