Schools
105 open schools are in scope, including 68 primary and 13 secondary schools. John Cabot Academy is the nearest published school at 88 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS15 8JY
Kingswood · South Gloucestershire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Kingswood
- Local authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Bristol North East
- Postcode district
- BS15
- Postcode sector
- BS15 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS15 8JY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS15
- Postcode sector
- BS15 8
- Latitude
- 51.456617
- Longitude
- -2.514917
- British National Grid easting
- 364,320
- British National Grid northing
- 173,197
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- South Gloucestershire · E06000025
- Electoral ward
- Kingswood · E05012117
- Parish or community
- E04013343
- Westminster constituency
- Bristol North East · E14001133
- Output area
- E00075824
- Lower layer super output area
- South Gloucestershire 028C · E01015005
- Middle layer super output area
- South Gloucestershire 028 · E02003117
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 BS15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 105
- Primary
- 68
- Secondary
- 13
- 88 m
John Cabot Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 489 m
Beacon Rise Primary School
Community school
- 625 m
Two Mile Hill Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,239
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,651
- Shoplifting 531
- Public order 411
- Anti social behaviour 411
- Criminal damage and arson 276
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 39
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- BS15 8 residents
- 7,732
21 female, 18 male
Age bands in BS15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.4%
1,357 residents
686 residents
2,410 residents
1,729 residents
1,212 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BS15 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
22
within 5 km straight-line
ORCHARD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACDONALD WALK, KINGSWOOD, BRISTOL, BS15 8NJ
ODS code L81055
680 m
FIRECLAY HEALTH
BELLEVUE ROAD, ST GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PH
ODS code L81062
1.1 km
AIR BALLOON SURGERY
KENN ROAD, ST. GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PD
ODS code L81038
1.2 km
KINGSWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
ALMA ROAD, KINGSWOOD, BRISTOL, BS15 4EJ
ODS code L81063
1.3 km
HANHAM HEALTH
33 WHITTUCKS ROAD, HANHAM, BRISTOL, BS15 3HY
ODS code L81079
1.5 km
CADBURY HEATH HEALTHCARE
PARKWALL ROAD, BRISTOL, BS30 8HS
ODS code L81130
2.1 km
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WICK ROAD, BRISTOL, BS4 4HU
ODS code L81120
2.6 km
NIGHTINGALE VALLEY PRACTICE
WICK ROAD, BRISTOL, BS4 4HU
ODS code L81033
2.6 km
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEECHWOOD ROAD, BRISTOL, BS16 3TD
ODS code L81087
2.7 km
FISHPONDS FAMILY PRACTICE
BEECHWOOD ROAD, BRISTOL, BS16 3TD
ODS code L81013
2.7 km
THE OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, MANOR ROAD, FISHPONDS, BRISTOL, BS16 2JD
ODS code L81075
3.0 km
THE WELLSPRING SURGERY
BEAM STREET, REDFIELD, BRISTOL, BS5 9QY
ODS code L81061
3.2 km
THE DOWNEND HEALTH GROUP
CHRISTCHURCH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE, NORTH STREET, DOWNEND, BRISTOL, BS16 5SG
ODS code L81026
3.2 km
CLOSE FARM SURGERY
47 VICTORIA ROAD, WARMLEY, NORTH COMMON, BRISTOL, BS30 5JZ
ODS code L81050
3.3 km
EAST TREES HEALTH CENTRE
100A FISHPONDS ROAD, EASTVILLE, BRISTOL, BS5 6SA
ODS code L81023
3.7 km
ST AUGUSTINE'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLOCK C,THE CHOCOLATE FAC, VIA TRAVERSUS, KEYNSHAM, BRISTOL, BS31 2GN
ODS code L81045
4.0 km
LAWRENCE HILL HEALTH CENTRE
HASSELL DRIVE, EASTON, BRISTOL, BS2 0AN
ODS code L81089
4.0 km
CHARLOTTE KEEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
SEYMOUR ROAD, EASTON, BRISTOL, BS5 0UA
ODS code L81015
4.1 km
PRIORY SURGERY
326 WELLS ROAD, KNOWLE, BRISTOL, BS4 2QJ
ODS code L81084
4.3 km
WELLS ROAD SURGERY
233 WELLS ROAD, KNOWLE, BRISTOL, BS4 2DF
ODS code L81125
4.5 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
John Cabot Academy
BCT · Kingswood
- 0.3 miles
Oakfield Road
BCT · Hanham
- 0.3 miles
Oakfield Road
BCT · Hanham
- 0.3 miles
Thatchers Close
BCT · St George
- 0.3 miles
Thatchers Close
BCT · St George
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Gloucestershire 028C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,378 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,239 published events cover 12 months, averaging 353.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,651 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.