Property market
The five-year median is £732,500 from 2 recorded sales in RH17 7RD. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lewes is £367,918 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
RH17 7RD
Wivelsfield · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Haywards Heath
- Ward
- Wivelsfield
- Local authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield
- Postcode district
- RH17
- Postcode sector
- RH17 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH17 7RD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH17
- Postcode sector
- RH17 7
- Latitude
- 50.971116
- Longitude
- -0.095804
- British National Grid easting
- 533,793
- British National Grid northing
- 120,804
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Lewes · E07000063
- Electoral ward
- Wivelsfield · E05011603
- Parish or community
- E04003793
- Westminster constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield · E14001212
- Output area
- E00181267
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 002A · E01021023
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewes 002 · E02004380
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
25 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lunces Lodge East, Church Lane, Wivelsfield, Haywards Heath, RH17 7RD | 15 April 2024 | £900,000 |
| 3, Church Lane, Wivelsfield, Haywards Heath, RH17 7RD | 22 October 2021 | £565,000 |
| Long Acre, Church Lane, Wivelsfield, Haywards Heath, RH17 7RD | 26 September 2017 | £1,303,750 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.7 km
Oak Tree Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.7 km
Wivelsfield Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 2.2 km
Chalkhill Education Centre, Chalkhill Hospital
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 190
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 70
- Anti social behaviour 37
- Public order 23
- Criminal damage and arson 20
- Other theft 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 57
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- RH17 7 residents
- 7,294
26 female, 31 male
Age bands in RH17 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.7%
1,338 residents
667 residents
1,547 residents
2,248 residents
1,513 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RH17 7 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+
- 96%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 96%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96%
- 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
SILVERDALE PRACTICE
4 SILVERDALE ROAD, BURGESS HILL, RH15 0EF
ODS code H82072
2.7 km
NORTHLANDS WOOD SURGERY
7 WALNUT PARK, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3TG
ODS code H82100
3.0 km
BROW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE BROW, BURGESS HILL, RH15 9BS
ODS code H82084
3.3 km
NEWTONS PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CNTRE, HEATH ROAD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3BB
ODS code H82056
3.3 km
DOLPHINS PRACTICE
NIGHTINGALE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BUTLERS GREEN ROAD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 4BN
ODS code H82044
3.5 km
MEADOWS SURGERY
TEMPLE GROVE, GATEHOUSE LN, BURGESS HILL, RH15 9XN
ODS code H82003
4.1 km
LINDFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
57 HIGH STREET, LINDFIELD, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 2HX
ODS code H82035
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Ote Hall Chapel
BCT · Wivelsfield
- 0.3 miles
Ote Hall Chapel
BCT · Wivelsfield
- 0.3 miles
Ote Hall Chapel
BCT · Wivelsfield
- 0.3 miles
Ote Hall Chapel
BCT · Wivelsfield
- 0.6 miles
Bethel Baptist Chapel
BCT · Wivelsfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 002A, 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
28,846 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
28 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. Oak Tree Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
190 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 70 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.