Property market
The five-year median is £465,000 from 1 recorded sale in BS20 8RD. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for North Somerset is £314,628 in June 2026, up 7.5% year on year.
BS20 8RD
Portishead West · North Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bristol
- Ward
- Portishead West
- Local authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset
- Postcode district
- BS20
- Postcode sector
- BS20 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS20 8RD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS20
- Postcode sector
- BS20 8
- Latitude
- 51.479729
- Longitude
- -2.790479
- British National Grid easting
- 345,202
- British National Grid northing
- 175,938
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Somerset · E06000024
- Electoral ward
- Portishead West · E05010296
- Parish or community
- E04012097
- Westminster constituency
- North Somerset · E14001399
- Output area
- E00074762
- Lower layer super output area
- North Somerset 002D · E01014798
- Middle layer super output area
- North Somerset 002 · E02003066
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 BS20
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Tower Road, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 8RD | 22 August 2025 | £465,000 |
| 5, Tower Road, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 8RD | 29 January 2020 | £355,000 |
| 4, Tower Road, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 8RD | 23 May 2014 | £289,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 168 m
High Down Infant School
Academy converter
- 209 m
High Down Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Gordano School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 809
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 367
- Anti social behaviour 101
- Public order 90
- Other theft 66
- Shoplifting 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- BS20 8 residents
- 5,874
10 female, 10 male
Age bands in BS20 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.3%
897 residents
461 residents
1,026 residents
1,762 residents
1,801 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BS20 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+
- 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
2
within 5 km
PORTISHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA SQUARE, PORTISHEAD, BRISTOL, BS20 6AQ
ODS code L81004
1.6 km
HARBOURSIDE FAMILY PRACTICE
THE MARINA HEALTHCARE CTR, 2 HAVEN VIEW, PORTISHEAD, BRISTOL, BS20 7QA
ODS code L81600
2.3 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
- 0.1 miles
Bruton Avenue
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
Bruton Avenue
BCT · Portishead
- 0.2 miles
High Down Schools
BCT · Portishead
- 0.2 miles
High Down Schools
BCT · Portishead
- 0.2 miles
Merlin Park
BCT · Portishead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Somerset 002D, 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
33,047 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. High Down Infant School is the nearest published school at 168 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
809 published events cover 12 months, averaging 67.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 367 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.