TN37 6HN Hastings

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Gensing. Region: South East.

Streets

House prices and rents in Hastings

A typical home in Hastings cost £238,780 in August 2026, 2.5% less than a year before. That is 2% less than five years earlier and 31% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£476,848
Semi-detached£326,249
Terraced£255,630
Flat or maisonette£141,840
Bought by a first-time buyer£203,153

Private renters in Hastings paid £1,008 a month on average in September 2026, 1.7% more than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£697
Two bedrooms£898
Three bedrooms£1,102
Four or more bedrooms£1,514

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in Hastings in 2026-27: Band D £2,677 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,784£2,082£2,379£2,677£3,271£3,866£4,461£5,353

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (79% of about 940 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, King's Road, St Leonards (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the postcode.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Pebsham Landfill Gas 3 MW Operational Oct 2000 3 km (1.9 miles)
Pebsham (Extension) Hastings RR/413/CM Landfill Gas 1 MW Operational Nov 2004 3 km (1.9 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 350 m from the postcode (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line South Foreland to Beachy Head none (the line is held)450 m (0.3 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line South Foreland to Beachy Head none (the line is held)450 m (0.3 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention South Foreland to Beachy Head up to 81 m350 m

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode spilled 3 times, for 5 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into The English Channel.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Coombs Hastings Ceo Southern Water The English Channel 3 5 550 m (0.3 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 6,736 kWh of it on average in 2024, 34% less than the district's 10,165 kWh, and 2,092 kWh of electricity, 34% less than the district's 3,166 kWh. There are gas meters for about 59% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is TN37.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode, the nearest 450 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Bohemia Road Cricket Ground Hastings, Sussex until 1968 Inert, household 450 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 20 addresses are between 33 m and 38 m above sea level (35 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 31%, gigabit 31% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsSt Leonards Warrior Square 1.0 million journeys in 2024–25190 m
Hastings 2.2 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
West St Leonards 138,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St John's Road St Leonards40 m
Bus or coach stationThree Oaks - Lane Bridge6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa440 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smart Charge UK1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW61.8 km (38 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Station Practice Requires improvement Aug 20221.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clarity Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery290 m
HospitalConquest Hospital Outstanding Jan 20233.3 km (2 miles)
Care homes32 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingswood House Nursing Home Requires improvement Jun 2022190 m
Police stationHastings Police Station410 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Londis Cashzone410 m (0.3 miles)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 190 m from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Artemis St Leonards TN37 6HR Full day care 31 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 190 m
Fellowship of St Nicholas TN37 6AS Full day care 42 Feb 2026: Strong standard in 4 areas, Expected standard in 2 320 m
Little Skaters Nursery & Pre-School TN38 0JP Full day care 50 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 420 m (0.3 miles)
Jigsaw Day Nursery TN38 0QL Full day care 30 Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
Jigsaw YMCA Ltd TN37 6RS Full day care 50 Good (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 680 m (0.4 miles)
1066 Kids Club TN37 6RT Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 750 m (0.5 miles)
Bear's House Nursery TN34 1LY Full day care 50 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 2 areas, Expected standard in 4 750 m (0.5 miles)
Park Road Under Fives TN37 6SJ Full day care 49 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
Jigsaw Day Nursery TN34 1BA Full day care 30 Outstanding (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bear's House, St Leonards TN38 0TS Full day care 62 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 147 childminders and 44 home childcarers (nannies) in East Sussex. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Warrior Square Gardens 1.9 ha200 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)White Rock Gardens 6.8 ha380 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 900 m²80 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Oval 1.9 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,780 m²550 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chapel to the Former Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, a listed building (Grade II*), 330 m south-east. 96 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Chapel to the Former Convent of the Holy Child JesusListed building, Grade II*330 m south-east
Christ ChurchListed building, Grade II*350 m south-west
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) north
The Clock HouseListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) south-west
St Leonard's GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II720 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Hastings Castle, the Collegiate Church of St Mary and the Ladies' ParlourScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Summerfields WoodWood540 m (0.3 miles) north-east
St Leonards on Sea BeachBeach540 m (0.3 miles) south
Shornden ReservoirLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Castle HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) east
Old Roar GillValley2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Filsham ReedbedWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5950
Under 551520

5 of the postcode's 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 5 serious and 3 slight, in which 5 people were seriously hurt. 4 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist. 38% happened in the dark, and 13% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202232
202310
202422
202521
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
22 Dec 2025 23:21 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
19 Jan 2025 02:28 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
19 May 2024 15:20 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 May 2024 09:50 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
1 Feb 2023 13:34 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
9 Sep 2022 11:20 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
27 Apr 2022 13:10 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
7 Apr 2022 22:58 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Hastings: see them on the Hastings page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 252 residents in 109 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age4240
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented66%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)83%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on St John's Road.