Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Aurora Hedgeway School is the nearest published school at 487 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS12 3HN
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS12 3HN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 1997
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS12
- Postcode sector
- BS12 3
- Latitude
- 51.565439
- Longitude
- -2.616417
- British National Grid easting
- 357,370
- British National Grid northing
- 185,354
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
- E00075596
- Lower layer super output area
- South Gloucestershire 004D · E01014963
- 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
- 14
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 487 m
Aurora Hedgeway School
Other independent special school
- 1.4 km
St Peter's Anglican / Methodist VC Primary
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.2 km
Severn Beach Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Public order 2
- Vehicle crime 2
- Possession of weapons 2
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
ALMONDSBURY SURGERY
SUNDAYS HILL, ALMONDSBURY, BRISTOL, BS32 4DS
ODS code L81127
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Pilning Rail Station
RSE · Pilning
- 0.8 miles
Pilning Rail Station
RLY · Pilning
- 0.8 miles
Pilning School
BCT · Pilning
- 0.8 miles
Pilning School
BCT · Pilning
- 0.9 miles
Station Road
BCT · Marsh Common
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Gloucestershire 004D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,124 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
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.