Property market
The five-year median is £307,500 from 8 recorded sales in RH17 6BT. 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.
RH17 6BT
Handcross & Pease Pottage · Mid Sussex · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Haywards Heath
- Local authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield
- Postcode district
- RH17
- Postcode sector
- RH17 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH17 6BT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH17
- Postcode sector
- RH17 6
- Latitude
- 51.054755
- Longitude
- -0.200848
- British National Grid easting
- 526,191
- British National Grid northing
- 129,919
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mid Sussex · E07000228
- Electoral ward
- Handcross & Pease Pottage · E05014725
- Parish or community
- E04009996
- Westminster constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield · E14001212
- Output area
- E00161618
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Sussex 007F · E01035346
- 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 RH17
Property
68 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 38, Windmill Platt, Handcross, Haywards Heath, RH17 6BT | 10 December 2025 | £300,000 |
| 39, Windmill Platt, Handcross, Haywards Heath, RH17 6BT | 24 November 2025 | £180,000 |
| 34, Windmill Platt, Handcross, Haywards Heath, RH17 6BT | 6 December 2024 | £390,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 644 m
Handcross Primary School
Community school
- 866 m
Brighton College Prep Handcross
Other independent school
- 2.1 km
Brantridge School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 87
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 31
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Public order 8
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Drugs 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 42
- Postcode households
- 33
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- RH17 6 residents
- 5,923
21 female, 21 male
Age bands in RH17 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,047 residents
604 residents
1,161 residents
1,598 residents
1,123 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RH17 6 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
2
within 5 km
OUSE VALLEY PRACTICE
LONDON ROAD, HANDCROSS, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH17 6HB
ODS code H82615
613 m
COACHMANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LANSBURY ROAD, CRAWLEY, RH11 9JA
ODS code H82098
4.6 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
High Street
BCT · Handcross
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Handcross
- 0.1 miles
The Red Lion
BCT · Handcross
- 0.1 miles
The Red Lion
BCT · Handcross
- 0.2 miles
Truggers
BCT · Handcross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Sussex 007F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,710 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
- 0
- 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
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Handcross Primary School is the nearest published school at 644 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
87 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 31 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.