Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Michael Hall School is the nearest published school at 363 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH18 5HU
Forest Row · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Forest Row
- Local authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield
- Postcode district
- RH18
- Postcode sector
- RH18 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH18 5HU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH18
- Postcode sector
- RH18 5
- Latitude
- 51.094931
- Longitude
- 0.026488
- British National Grid easting
- 542,000
- British National Grid northing
- 134,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Forest Row · E05011635
- Parish or community
- E04003841
- Westminster constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield · E14001212
- Output area
- E00107535
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 001C · E01021169
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 001 · E02004403
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 RH18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 363 m
Michael Hall School
Other independent school
- 803 m
Forest Row Church of England Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.1 km
Greenfields School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 446
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 190
- Violence and sexual offences 95
- Anti social behaviour 62
- Criminal damage and arson 27
- Other theft 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH18 5 residents
- 4,476
Age bands in RH18 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.7%
739 residents
445 residents
816 residents
1,364 residents
1,102 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
ASHDOWN FOREST HEALTH CENTRE
LEWES ROAD, FOREST ROW, RH18 5AQ
ODS code G81024
506 m
MOATFIELD SURGERY
ST. MICHAELS ROAD, EAST GRINSTEAD, RH19 3GW
ODS code H82063
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Evelyn Clark Square
BCT · Forest Row
- 0.3 miles
Evelyn Clark Square
BCT · Forest Row
- 0.3 miles
Highgate Road
BCT · Highgate
- 0.4 miles
Highgate Road
BCT · Highgate
- 0.4 miles
Upper Close
BCT · Forest Row
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 001C, 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
23,625 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
446 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 190 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.