East Grinstead
East Grinstead is covered by postcode districts RH18 and RH19. It is mostly in the Mid Sussex council area: 828 of its 831 postcodes. The others are in Tandridge. 828 are in West Sussex and 3 in Surrey.
Every postcode in East Grinstead, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 75
- In use before 2020: 756
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 831 postcodes in East Grinstead that ONS places, 75 are new since 2020 and 756 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.1281, longitude -0.0121. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
3 further out, not drawn
These postcodes lie well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without them to show the rest closer; they are in every count.
What is it like to live in East Grinstead?
Homes sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.4% on the 12 months before. At 667 of the 731 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 5 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 831 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is East Grinstead, 450 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in East Grinstead?
Homes in East Grinstead sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 351 sales, down 1.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £610,000 93 sales
- Semi-detached £440,000 75 sales
- Terraced £365,000 72 sales
- Flat or maisonette £230,000 111 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole RH19 district, East Grinstead's main postcode district: a typical £425,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in East Grinstead: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in East Grinstead?
75 of the 831 postcodes now in use in East Grinstead came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 3 of the 472 homes sold in East Grinstead were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the RH19 district, 2%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In East Grinstead | Across the RH19 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 3 of 351 (Under 1%) | 4 of 430 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 3 of 472 (Under 1%) | 10 of 588 (2%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in East Grinstead?
Ofcom reports on 731 of the 831 postcodes in East Grinstead. At 667 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is East Grinstead at risk of flooding?
3 of the 831 postcodes in East Grinstead have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 5 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in East Grinstead?
The open schools at the postcodes in East Grinstead. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School, East Grinstead750 m 199 pupils, 210 places
- Blackwell Primary School850 m 294 pupils, 390 places
- Halsford Park Primary School1.0 km 398 pupils, 420 places
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School1.1 km 188 pupils, 210 places
- Estcots Primary School1.1 km 403 pupils, 521 places
- The Meads Primary School1.3 km 286 pupils, 320 places
- Baldwins Hill Primary School, East Grinstead1.3 km 139 pupils, 210 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from East Grinstead?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in East Grinstead is East Grinstead Rail Station, 450 m away in a straight line.
- East Grinstead Rail Station Railway station 450 mWalk
- Dormans Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
- Lingfield Rail Station Railway station 5.4 kmDrive
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in East Grinstead?
The GP practices at the postcodes in East Grinstead. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Moatfield Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01342 327555 400 mWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is East Grinstead safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,444 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in East Grinstead over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 91 September 2025
- 90 October 2025
- 117 November 2025
- 104 December 2025
- 108 January 2026
- 107 February 2026
- 143 March 2026
- 145 April 2026
- 161 May 2026
- 136 June 2026
- 125 July 2026
- 117 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 33, other crime 25, robbery 22, possession of weapons 17, theft from the person 11, bicycle theft 9.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs East Grinstead?
- Councils
- Mid Sussex (828) and Tandridge (3)
- County councils
- West Sussex (828) and Surrey (3)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- East Grinstead and Uckfield (828) and East Surrey (3)
- Police force areas
- Sussex (828) and Surrey (3)
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to East Grinstead
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of East Grinstead is in Mid Sussex; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Mid Sussex about council tax Council tax, on midsussex.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in East Grinstead
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
East Grinstead postcodes
831 postcodes in use in East Grinstead, by district:
Those districts are all in the RH postcode area.
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Places near East Grinstead
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside East Grinstead's £400,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about East Grinstead
- What is it like to live in East Grinstead?
- Homes sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.4% on the 12 months before. At 667 of the 731 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 5 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 831 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is East Grinstead, 450 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for East Grinstead?
- East Grinstead is covered by postcode districts RH18 and RH19, across 831 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in East Grinstead?
- Homes in East Grinstead sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 351 sales, down 1.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in East Grinstead?
- In East Grinstead, primary schools at its postcodes include St Mary's Church of England Primary School, East Grinstead, Blackwell Primary School and Halsford Park Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Sackville School and Imberhorne School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Does East Grinstead have a railway station?
- Yes: East Grinstead is 450 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in East Grinstead, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in East Grinstead?
- Ofcom reports on 731 of the 831 postcodes in East Grinstead. At 667 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is East Grinstead at risk of flooding?
- 3 of the 831 postcodes in East Grinstead have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 5 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in East Grinstead?
- 75 of the 831 postcodes now in use in East Grinstead came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 3 of the 472 homes sold in East Grinstead were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the RH19 district, 2%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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