Schools
111 open schools are in scope, including 74 primary and 13 secondary schools. Briarwood School is the nearest published school at 230 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS16 3SP
Hillfields · Bristol, City of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bristol
- Ward
- Hillfields
- Local authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol North East
- Postcode district
- BS16
- Postcode sector
- BS16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS16 3SP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS16
- Postcode sector
- BS16 3
- Latitude
- 51.475824
- Longitude
- -2.524997
- British National Grid easting
- 363,635
- British National Grid northing
- 175,338
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bristol, City of · E06000023
- Electoral ward
- Hillfields · E05010903
- Parish or community
- E43000019
- Westminster constituency
- Bristol North East · E14001133
- Output area
- E00073877
- Lower layer super output area
- Bristol 021A · E01014622
- Middle layer super output area
- Bristol 021 · E02003032
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 BS16
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, William Street, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3SP | 11 September 2020 | £215,000 |
| 2, William Street, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3SP | 9 February 2018 | £210,000 |
| 5, William Street, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3SP | 2 October 2015 | £173,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 111
- Primary
- 74
- Secondary
- 13
- 230 m
Briarwood School
Community special school
- 293 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 449 m
Chester Park Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,374
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,441
- Shoplifting 735
- Anti social behaviour 625
- Public order 617
- Other theft 439
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- 4 female, 6 male
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- BS16 3 residents
- 8,085
Age bands in BS16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- 1,302 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.3%
- 1,119 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.1%
- 2,746 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 22%
- 1,720 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 12.1%
- 947 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BS16 3 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
26
within 5 km straight-line
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEECHWOOD ROAD, BRISTOL, BS16 3TD
ODS code L81087
443 m
FISHPONDS FAMILY PRACTICE
BEECHWOOD ROAD, BRISTOL, BS16 3TD
ODS code L81013
443 m
THE OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, MANOR ROAD, FISHPONDS, BRISTOL, BS16 2JD
ODS code L81075
724 m
THE DOWNEND HEALTH GROUP
CHRISTCHURCH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE, NORTH STREET, DOWNEND, BRISTOL, BS16 5SG
ODS code L81026
1.7 km
FIRECLAY HEALTH
BELLEVUE ROAD, ST GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PH
ODS code L81062
1.7 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACDONALD WALK, KINGSWOOD, BRISTOL, BS15 8NJ
ODS code L81055
1.8 km
AIR BALLOON SURGERY
KENN ROAD, ST. GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PD
ODS code L81038
1.9 km
KINGSWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
ALMA ROAD, KINGSWOOD, BRISTOL, BS15 4EJ
ODS code L81063
2.3 km
EAST TREES HEALTH CENTRE
100A FISHPONDS ROAD, EASTVILLE, BRISTOL, BS5 6SA
ODS code L81023
2.7 km
THE WELLSPRING SURGERY
BEAM STREET, REDFIELD, BRISTOL, BS5 9QY
ODS code L81061
3.4 km
CHARLOTTE KEEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
SEYMOUR ROAD, EASTON, BRISTOL, BS5 0UA
ODS code L81015
3.4 km
LEAP VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BEAUFORT ROAD, DOWNEND, BRISTOL, BS16 6UG
ODS code L81046
3.5 km
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WICK ROAD, BRISTOL, BS4 4HU
ODS code L81120
3.7 km
NIGHTINGALE VALLEY PRACTICE
WICK ROAD, BRISTOL, BS4 4HU
ODS code L81033
3.7 km
HANHAM HEALTH
33 WHITTUCKS ROAD, HANHAM, BRISTOL, BS15 3HY
ODS code L81079
3.7 km
EMERSONS GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. LUKES CLOSE, EMERSON'S GREEN SOUTH, BRISTOL, BS16 7AL
ODS code L81632
3.8 km
LAWRENCE HILL HEALTH CENTRE
HASSELL DRIVE, EASTON, BRISTOL, BS2 0AN
ODS code L81089
3.9 km
HORFIELD HC
LOCKLEAZE ROAD, BRISTOL, BS7 9RR
ODS code L81022
3.9 km
CADBURY HEATH HEALTHCARE
PARKWALL ROAD, BRISTOL, BS30 8HS
ODS code L81130
4.1 km
GLOUCESTER ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1A CHURCH ROAD, HORFIELD, BRISTOL, BS7 8SA
ODS code L81078
4.5 km
Showing 20 of 26 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 378 m
Forest Road
BCT · Fishponds
- 382 m
Forest Road
BCT · Fishponds
- 399 m
Mendip View Avenue
BCT · Fishponds
- 411 m
Mendip View Avenue
BCT · Fishponds
- 446 m
Quadrant West
BCT · Hillfields
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bristol 021A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,723 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 1
- 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
6,374 published events cover 12 months, averaging 531 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,441 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.