Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Farney Close School is the nearest published school at 71 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH17 5RB
Cuckfield, Bolney & Ansty · Mid Sussex · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex
- Postcode district
- RH17
- Postcode sector
- RH17 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH17 5RB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2021
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH17
- Postcode sector
- RH17 5
- Latitude
- 50.987841
- Longitude
- -0.191197
- British National Grid easting
- 527,050
- British National Grid northing
- 122,495
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mid Sussex · E07000228
- Electoral ward
- Cuckfield, Bolney & Ansty · E05014718
- Parish or community
- E04009982
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Sussex · E14001366
- Output area
- E00161636
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 016A · E01031698
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 016 · E02006619
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 RH17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 71 m
Farney Close School
Other independent special school
- 886 m
Bolney CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.1 km
Twineham CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 64
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Public order 7
- Other theft 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH17 5 residents
- 7,270
Age bands in RH17 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.3%
1,366 residents
800 residents
1,464 residents
2,217 residents
1,583 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
MEADOWS SURGERY
TEMPLE GROVE, GATEHOUSE LN, BURGESS HILL, RH15 9XN
ODS code H82003
4.0 km
CUCKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
GLEBE ROAD, CUCKFIELD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH17 5BQ
ODS code H82005
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Magdalene Rise
BCT · Bolney
- 0.4 miles
Magdalene Rise
BCT · Bolney
- 0.5 miles
Roughgrass Wood
BCT · Bolney
- 0.6 miles
Bankside
BCT · Bolney
- 0.6 miles
Bankside
BCT · Bolney
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Sussex 016A, 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
21,975 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
64 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.