Property market
The five-year median is £450,000 from 1 recorded sale in BS48 3LD. 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.
BS48 3LD
Backwell · North Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bristol
- Ward
- Backwell
- Local authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset
- Postcode district
- BS48
- Postcode sector
- BS48 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS48 3LD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2002
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS48
- Postcode sector
- BS48 3
- Latitude
- 51.415812
- Longitude
- -2.748624
- British National Grid easting
- 348,036
- British National Grid northing
- 168,799
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Somerset · E06000024
- Electoral ward
- Backwell · E05010276
- Parish or community
- E04012099
- Westminster constituency
- North Somerset · E14001399
- Output area
- E00074444
- Lower layer super output area
- North Somerset 011B · E01014738
- Middle layer super output area
- North Somerset 011 · E02003075
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 BS48
Property
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Marle Pits, Backwell, Bristol, BS48 3LD | 27 October 2022 | £450,000 |
| 4, Marle Pits, Backwell, Bristol, BS48 3LD | 25 August 2020 | £385,000 |
| 7, Marle Pits, Backwell, Bristol, BS48 3LD | 31 August 2018 | £579,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 85 m
West Leigh Infant School
Academy converter
- 658 m
Backwell School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Backwell Church of England Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 224
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 87
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Burglary 22
- Other theft 22
- Criminal damage and arson 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- BS48 3 residents
- 5,816
14 female, 11 male
Age bands in BS48 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
1,089 residents
534 residents
1,073 residents
1,615 residents
1,327 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BS48 3 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
1
within 5 km
TYNTESFIELD MEDICAL GROUP
TOWER HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, STOCK WAY SOUTH, NAILSEA, BRISTOL, BS48 2XX
ODS code L81034
2.1 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
- 0.2 miles
Backwell Common
BCT · Backwell
- 0.2 miles
Nailsea and Backwell Station
BCT · Backwell
- 0.2 miles
Backwell Common
BCT · Backwell
- 0.2 miles
Nailsea and Backwell Station
BCT · Backwell
- 0.3 miles
Nailsea & Backwell Rail Station
RSE · Nailsea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Somerset 011B, 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
26,028 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
- 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
15 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. West Leigh Infant School is the nearest published school at 85 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
224 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 87 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.