Property market
The five-year median is £1,100,000 from 1 recorded sale in RH18 5LF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wealden is £386,787 in June 2026, down 0.7% year on year.
RH18 5LF
Forest Row · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Forest Row
- 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 5LF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2006
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH18
- Postcode sector
- RH18 5
- Latitude
- 51.083774
- Longitude
- 0.033025
- British National Grid easting
- 542,492
- British National Grid northing
- 133,572
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
- E00107541
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 001B · E01021168
- 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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Cottage, Wych Warren, Forest Row, RH18 5LF | 23 May 2023 | £1,100,000 |
| The Cottage, Wych Warren, Forest Row, RH18 5LF | 31 January 2008 | £653,000 |
| Wych Warren House, Wych Warren, Forest Row, RH18 5LF | 28 October 1999 | £490,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.1 km
Michael Hall School
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
Forest Row Church of England Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.4 km
Greenfields School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 369
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 188
- Violence and sexual offences 70
- Anti social behaviour 40
- Other theft 17
- Criminal damage and arson 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- RH18 5 residents
- 4,476
2 female, 6 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RH18 5 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+
- 0%
- 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
1
within 5 km
ASHDOWN FOREST HEALTH CENTRE
LEWES ROAD, FOREST ROW, RH18 5AQ
ODS code G81024
1.5 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
- 0.3 miles
Ashdown Place
BCT · Highgate
- 0.3 miles
Ashdown Place
BCT · Highgate
- 0.5 miles
Highgate Road
BCT · Highgate
- 0.5 miles
Highgate Road
BCT · Highgate
- 0.5 miles
Stone Cottage
BCT · Wych Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 001B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,765 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 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
- 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
7 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Michael Hall School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
369 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 188 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.