Schools
79 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 11 secondary schools. Frome Vale Academy is the nearest published school at 532 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS16 6EX
Frenchay & Downend · South Gloucestershire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bristol
- 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 6EX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS16
- Postcode sector
- BS16 6
- Latitude
- 51.492923
- Longitude
- -2.509233
- British National Grid easting
- 364,743
- British National Grid northing
- 177,232
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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 94, Cleeve Hill, Downend, Bristol, BS16 6EX | 8 November 2019 | £394,500 |
| 96, Cleeve Hill, Downend, Bristol, BS16 6EX | 10 September 2019 | £399,000 |
| 100, Cleeve Hill, Bristol, BS16 6EX | 30 June 2010 | £230,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 79
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 11
- 532 m
Frome Vale Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 848 m
Christ Church, Church of England Infant School, Downend
Voluntary controlled school
- 854 m
Frenchay Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,361
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 984
- Anti social behaviour 309
- Public order 207
- Other theft 172
- Criminal damage and arson 169
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- BS16 6 residents
- 10,943
3 female, 5 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BS16 6 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
14
within 5 km
THE DOWNEND HEALTH GROUP
CHRISTCHURCH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE, NORTH STREET, DOWNEND, BRISTOL, BS16 5SG
ODS code L81026
911 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
3.4 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACDONALD WALK, KINGSWOOD, BRISTOL, BS15 8NJ
ODS code L81055
3.4 km
STOKES MEDICAL GROUP
RATCLIFFE DRIVE, STOKE GIFFORD, BRISTOL, BS34 8UE
ODS code L81118
3.8 km
FIRECLAY HEALTH
BELLEVUE ROAD, ST GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PH
ODS code L81062
3.8 km
AIR BALLOON SURGERY
KENN ROAD, ST. GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PD
ODS code L81038
4.1 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
4.6 km
HORFIELD HC
LOCKLEAZE ROAD, BRISTOL, BS7 9RR
ODS code L81022
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Heath Walk
BCT · Downend
- 0.0 miles
Cleeve Hill
BCT · Downend
- 0.1 miles
Heath Walk
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.
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
2,361 published events cover 12 months, averaging 196.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 984 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.