Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath is covered by postcode districts RH16 and RH17. It is mostly in the Mid Sussex council area: 1,126 of its 1,132 postcodes. The others are in Lewes. 1,126 are in West Sussex and 6 in East Sussex.
Every postcode in Haywards Heath, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 9
- At medium risk at worst: 16
- At low risk at worst: 13
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,094
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 1,132 postcodes in Haywards Heath that ONS places, 9 have a home or business at high risk, 16 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 1,094 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. 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 51.0007, longitude -0.0980. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
What is it like to live in Haywards Heath?
Homes sold for a typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 884 of the 1,051 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 88 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 38 of its 1,132 postcodes. It has 8 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Haywards Heath, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Haywards Heath?
Homes in Haywards Heath sold for a typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 579 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £422,500 from 734 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £705,000 149 sales
- Semi-detached £450,000 154 sales
- Terraced £398,500 115 sales
- Flat or maisonette £245,000 161 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole RH16 district, Haywards Heath's main postcode district: a typical £417,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Haywards Heath: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Haywards Heath?
58 of the 1,132 postcodes now in use in Haywards Heath came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 3 of the 734 homes sold in Haywards Heath were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the RH16 district, 3%.
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 Haywards Heath | Across the RH16 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 579 (0%) | 4 of 549 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 3 of 734 (Under 1%) | 19 of 724 (3%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Haywards Heath?
Ofcom reports on 1,051 of the 1,132 postcodes in Haywards Heath. At 884 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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Haywards Heath at risk of flooding?
38 of the 1,132 postcodes in Haywards Heath 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 88 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Haywards Heath?
The open schools at the postcodes in Haywards Heath (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- Warden Park Primary Academy150 m 453 pupils, 420 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School350 m 434 pupils, 420 places
- St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School650 m 418 pupils, 420 places
- Blackthorns Community Primary School1.1 km 203 pupils, 210 places
- Northlands Wood Primary Academy1.3 km 419 pupils, 420 places
- Lindfield Primary Academy1.4 km 656 pupils, 660 places
- Harlands Primary School1.5 km 453 pupils, 450 places
- Bolnore Village Primary School1.8 km 424 pupils, 420 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Haywards Heath?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Haywards Heath is Haywards Heath Rail Station, 750 m away in a straight line.
- Haywards Heath Rail Station Railway station 750 mWalk
- Wivelsfield Rail Station Railway station 4.3 kmCycle
- Burgess Hill Rail Station Railway station 5.6 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Haywards Heath?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Haywards Heath. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Newtons Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01444 412280 400 mWalk
- Dolphins Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01444 414767 1.3 kmCycle
- Northlands Wood Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01444 458022 1.3 kmCycle
- Lindfield Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01444 484056 1.8 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Haywards Heath safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,719 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Haywards Heath 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
- 181 September 2025
- 147 October 2025
- 152 November 2025
- 144 December 2025
- 127 January 2026
- 132 February 2026
- 123 March 2026
- 123 April 2026
- 133 May 2026
- 152 June 2026
- 170 July 2026
- 135 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 48, other crime 34, possession of weapons 17, bicycle theft 14, theft from the person 13, robbery 11.
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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Haywards Heath?
- Councils
- Mid Sussex (1,126) and Lewes (6)
- County councils
- West Sussex (1,126) and East Sussex (6)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Mid Sussex (1,119) and East Grinstead and Uckfield (13)
- Police force area
- Sussex
- 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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Haywards Heath
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Haywards Heath 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 Haywards Heath
- 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
Haywards Heath postcodes
1,132 postcodes in use in Haywards Heath, by district:
Those districts are all in the RH postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Haywards Heath
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Haywards Heath's £420,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Haywards Heath
- What is the postcode for Haywards Heath?
- Postcode districts RH16 and RH17, with 1,132 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Haywards Heath?
- A typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 579 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Haywards Heath?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Warden Park Primary Academy, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Oathall Community College. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Haywards Heath have a railway station?
- Yes: Haywards Heath station, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Haywards Heath?
- Ofcom reports on 1,051 of the 1,132 postcodes in Haywards Heath. At 884 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Haywards Heath at risk of flooding?
- 38 of the 1,132 postcodes in Haywards Heath 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 88 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Haywards Heath?
- 58 of the 1,132 postcodes now in use in Haywards Heath came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 3 of the 734 homes sold in Haywards Heath were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the RH16 district, 3%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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