Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. High Down Junior School is the nearest published school at 699 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS20 9NW
Portishead West · North Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Ward
- Portishead West
- Local authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset
- Postcode district
- BS20
- Postcode sector
- BS20 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS20 9NW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 1997
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS20
- Postcode sector
- BS20 9
- Latitude
- 51.481863
- Longitude
- -2.778031
- British National Grid easting
- 346,069
- British National Grid northing
- 176,166
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
- E00074746
- Lower layer super output area
- North Somerset 001C · E01014795
- 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
Explore BS20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 699 m
High Down Junior School
Academy converter
- 731 m
High Down Infant School
Academy converter
- 811 m
St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,454
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 567
- Shoplifting 224
- Anti social behaviour 194
- Public order 140
- Other theft 107
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
PORTISHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA SQUARE, PORTISHEAD, BRISTOL, BS20 6AQ
ODS code L81004
752 m
HARBOURSIDE FAMILY PRACTICE
THE MARINA HEALTHCARE CTR, 2 HAVEN VIEW, PORTISHEAD, BRISTOL, BS20 7QA
ODS code L81600
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Channel View Road
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
Channel View Road
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
St Barnabas Centre
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
Avon Way
BCT · Portishead
- 0.1 miles
St Barnabas Centre
BCT · Portishead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Somerset 001C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,505 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,454 published events cover 12 months, averaging 121.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 567 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.