Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. Castlefell School is the nearest published school at 427 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS12 2SB
Severn Vale · South Gloucestershire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Severn Vale
- Local authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate
- Postcode district
- BS12
- Postcode sector
- BS12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS12 2SB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 1997
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS12
- Postcode sector
- BS12 2
- Latitude
- 51.569847
- Longitude
- -2.550998
- British National Grid easting
- 361,908
- British National Grid northing
- 185,808
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- South Gloucestershire · E06000025
- Electoral ward
- Severn Vale · E05012123
- Parish or community
- E04001064
- Westminster constituency
- Thornbury and Yate · E14001545
- Output area
- E00075595
- Lower layer super output area
- South Gloucestershire 004C · E01014962
- Middle layer super output area
- South Gloucestershire 004 · E02003093
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 BS12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 427 m
Castlefell School
Other independent special school
- 1.1 km
Tockington Manor School
Other independent school
- 2.3 km
St Helen's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 104
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 50
- Public order 13
- Other theft 12
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Criminal damage and arson 8
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
ALMONDSBURY SURGERY
SUNDAYS HILL, ALMONDSBURY, BRISTOL, BS32 4DS
ODS code L81127
2.4 km
ST MARY STREET SURGERY
24 ST. MARY STREET, THORNBURY, BRISTOL, BS35 2AT
ODS code L81103
4.5 km
CONCORD MEDICAL CENTRE
BRAYDON AVENUE, LITTLE STOKE, BRISTOL, BS34 6BQ
ODS code L81019
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Abbotswood
BCT · Woodhouse Down
- 0.1 miles
Abbotswood
BCT · Woodhouse Down
- 0.3 miles
Washingpool Hill
BCT · Rudgeway
- 0.3 miles
Washingpool Hill
BCT · Rudgeway
- 0.4 miles
Fern Hill
BCT · Woodhouse Down
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Gloucestershire 004C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,306 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
104 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 50 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.