Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. High Down Infant School is the nearest published school at 266 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS20 8RP
Portishead West · North Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 8RP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS20
- Postcode sector
- BS20 8
- Latitude
- 51.478823
- Longitude
- -2.791472
- British National Grid easting
- 345,132
- British National Grid northing
- 175,838
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
- E00074753
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 266 m
High Down Infant School
Academy converter
- 295 m
High Down Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Gordano School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 745
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 350
- Anti social behaviour 95
- Public order 82
- Other theft 59
- Shoplifting 47
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BS20 8 residents
- 5,874
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
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
PORTISHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA SQUARE, PORTISHEAD, BRISTOL, BS20 6AQ
ODS code L81004
1.7 km
HARBOURSIDE FAMILY PRACTICE
THE MARINA HEALTHCARE CTR, 2 HAVEN VIEW, PORTISHEAD, BRISTOL, BS20 7QA
ODS code L81600
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bruton Avenue
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
Bruton Avenue
BCT · Portishead
- 0.2 miles
Merlin Park
BCT · Portishead
- 0.2 miles
Merlin Park
BCT · Portishead
- 0.2 miles
High Down Schools
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
745 published events cover 12 months, averaging 62.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 350 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.