Schools
79 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 11 secondary schools. Frome Vale Academy is the nearest published school at 543 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS16 6EW
Frenchay & Downend · South Gloucestershire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Frenchay & Downend
- Local authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke
- Postcode district
- BS16
- Postcode sector
- BS16 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS16 6EW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS16
- Postcode sector
- BS16 6
- Latitude
- 51.492323
- Longitude
- -2.508794
- British National Grid easting
- 364,773
- British National Grid northing
- 177,165
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- South Gloucestershire · E06000025
- Electoral ward
- Frenchay & Downend · E05012115
- Parish or community
- E04001082
- Westminster constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke · E14001237
- Output area
- E00075303
- Lower layer super output area
- South Gloucestershire 020C · E01014903
- Middle layer super output area
- South Gloucestershire 020 · E02003109
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 79
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 11
- 543 m
Frome Vale Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 776 m
Christ Church, Church of England Infant School, Downend
Voluntary controlled school
- 889 m
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,468
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,051
- Anti social behaviour 318
- Public order 218
- Criminal damage and arson 182
- Other theft 167
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BS16 6 residents
- 10,943
Age bands in BS16 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
2,025 residents
1,160 residents
2,550 residents
3,015 residents
2,569 residents
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.
GP practices
14
within 5 km straight-line
THE DOWNEND HEALTH GROUP
CHRISTCHURCH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE, NORTH STREET, DOWNEND, BRISTOL, BS16 5SG
ODS code L81026
839 m
LEAP VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BEAUFORT ROAD, DOWNEND, BRISTOL, BS16 6UG
ODS code L81046
1.5 km
THE OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, MANOR ROAD, FISHPONDS, BRISTOL, BS16 2JD
ODS code L81075
1.8 km
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEECHWOOD ROAD, BRISTOL, BS16 3TD
ODS code L81087
1.9 km
FISHPONDS FAMILY PRACTICE
BEECHWOOD ROAD, BRISTOL, BS16 3TD
ODS code L81013
1.9 km
EMERSONS GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. LUKES CLOSE, EMERSON'S GREEN SOUTH, BRISTOL, BS16 7AL
ODS code L81632
2.2 km
KINGSWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
ALMA ROAD, KINGSWOOD, BRISTOL, BS15 4EJ
ODS code L81063
3.3 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACDONALD WALK, KINGSWOOD, BRISTOL, BS15 8NJ
ODS code L81055
3.4 km
FIRECLAY HEALTH
BELLEVUE ROAD, ST GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PH
ODS code L81062
3.8 km
STOKES MEDICAL GROUP
RATCLIFFE DRIVE, STOKE GIFFORD, BRISTOL, BS34 8UE
ODS code L81118
3.9 km
AIR BALLOON SURGERY
KENN ROAD, ST. GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PD
ODS code L81038
4.0 km
EAST TREES HEALTH CENTRE
100A FISHPONDS ROAD, EASTVILLE, BRISTOL, BS5 6SA
ODS code L81023
4.5 km
FROME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
2 COURT ROAD, FRAMPTON COTTERELL, BRISTOL, BS36 2DE
ODS code L81014
4.7 km
HORFIELD HC
LOCKLEAZE ROAD, BRISTOL, BS7 9RR
ODS code L81022
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Heath Walk
BCT · Downend
- 0.0 miles
Heath Walk
BCT · Downend
- 0.1 miles
Cleeve Hill
BCT · Downend
- 0.1 miles
Cleeve Hill
BCT · Downend
- 0.1 miles
Cleeve Wood Road
BCT · Downend
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Gloucestershire 020C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,421 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
2,468 published events cover 12 months, averaging 205.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,051 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.