Broadband in Horsham

The Horsham figures cover 4,071 postcodes across 12 outward codes, including RH12, RH14 and RH20. Superfast broadband is available in 93.5% of them, which sounds high but sits below the UK-wide level of roughly 97 per cent, so the district carries a slightly larger band of addresses stuck between basic and fast. Gigabit-capable services reach 67.5% of postcodes. That leaves around a third of the district without a gigabit option, a bigger gap than the superfast one. The genuinely poor connections are rare, though. Only 1.6% of postcodes record speeds under 10 Mbps, so while many Horsham addresses cannot yet order top-tier packages, very few are left with an unusable line. The middle of the market, decent but not spectacular, is where most of the district lives.

For households the numbers translate simply. Two postcodes in three can order gigabit packages, and nearly all the rest still clear the superfast bar. Families streaming on several screens will manage at most addresses. The 1.6% below 10 Mbps is small, but those addresses will feel it daily, and the 6.5% without superfast may find peak-time performance the sticking point. Horsham sits close to, yet under, the coverage most of the UK now takes for granted.