Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Portishead Primary School is the nearest published school at 441 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS20 6EW
Portishead North · North Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bristol
- Ward
- Portishead North
- Local authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset
- Postcode district
- BS20
- Postcode sector
- BS20 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS20 6EW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS20
- Postcode sector
- BS20 6
- Latitude
- 51.485649
- Longitude
- -2.768345
- British National Grid easting
- 346,746
- British National Grid northing
- 176,580
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Somerset · E06000024
- Electoral ward
- Portishead North · E05010294
- Parish or community
- E04012097
- Westminster constituency
- North Somerset · E14001399
- Output area
- E00074706
- Lower layer super output area
- North Somerset 001G · E01032681
- Middle layer super output area
- North Somerset 001 · E02003065
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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 20, High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6EW | 16 September 2005 | £225,000 |
| 20, High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6EW | 16 February 2001 | £110,000 |
| 16, High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6EW | 10 May 1996 | £60,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 441 m
Portishead Primary School
Academy converter
- 577 m
St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Trinity Anglican-Methodist Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,568
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 601
- Shoplifting 233
- Anti social behaviour 220
- Public order 144
- Criminal damage and arson 112
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- BS20 6 residents
- 8,678
3 female, 5 male
Age bands in BS20 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.9%
1,360 residents
715 residents
1,762 residents
2,187 residents
2,328 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BS20 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
- 28.6%
- 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
2
within 5 km
PORTISHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA SQUARE, PORTISHEAD, BRISTOL, BS20 6AQ
ODS code L81004
324 m
HARBOURSIDE FAMILY PRACTICE
THE MARINA HEALTHCARE CTR, 2 HAVEN VIEW, PORTISHEAD, BRISTOL, BS20 7QA
ODS code L81600
712 m
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
- 0.1 miles
The Precinct
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
The Precinct
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
Combe Road
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
Aldi
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
Combe Road
BCT · Portishead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Somerset 001G, 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
25,984 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 2
- 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
1,568 published events cover 12 months, averaging 130.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 601 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.