Schools
119 open schools are in scope, including 75 primary and 17 secondary schools. John Cabot Academy is the nearest published school at 700 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS5 8RD
St George Troopers Hill · Bristol, City of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bristol
- Local authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol East
- Postcode district
- BS5
- Postcode sector
- BS5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS5 8RD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS5
- Postcode sector
- BS5 8
- Latitude
- 51.453435
- Longitude
- -2.522954
- British National Grid easting
- 363,759
- British National Grid northing
- 172,847
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bristol, City of · E06000023
- Electoral ward
- St George Troopers Hill · E05010911
- Parish or community
- E43000019
- Westminster constituency
- Bristol East · E14001132
- Output area
- E00074134
- Lower layer super output area
- Bristol 033C · E01014679
- Middle layer super output area
- Bristol 033 · E02003044
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 BS5
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Stables, Pear Tree Lane, St George, Bristol, BS5 8RD | 17 July 2019 | £540,000 |
| 2, Pear Tree Lane, St George, Bristol, BS5 8RD | 17 October 2016 | £20,000 |
| Ivy House, Pear Tree Lane, St George, Bristol, BS5 8RD | 16 April 1999 | £155,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 119
- Primary
- 75
- Secondary
- 17
- 700 m
John Cabot Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 780 m
Air Balloon Hill Primary School
Community school
- 955 m
Samuel White's Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,942
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,568
- Shoplifting 472
- Anti social behaviour 377
- Public order 345
- Criminal damage and arson 260
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- BS5 8 residents
- 10,368
7 female, 4 male
Age bands in BS5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.1%
1,665 residents
1,030 residents
3,985 residents
2,562 residents
1,650 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BS5 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+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- 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
25
within 5 km
AIR BALLOON SURGERY
KENN ROAD, ST. GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PD
ODS code L81038
855 m
FIRECLAY HEALTH
BELLEVUE ROAD, ST GEORGE, BRISTOL, BS5 7PH
ODS code L81062
889 m
ORCHARD MEDICAL CENTRE
MACDONALD WALK, KINGSWOOD, BRISTOL, BS15 8NJ
ODS code L81055
1.3 km
HANHAM HEALTH
33 WHITTUCKS ROAD, HANHAM, BRISTOL, BS15 3HY
ODS code L81079
1.3 km
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WICK ROAD, BRISTOL, BS4 4HU
ODS code L81120
1.9 km
NIGHTINGALE VALLEY PRACTICE
WICK ROAD, BRISTOL, BS4 4HU
ODS code L81033
1.9 km
KINGSWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
ALMA ROAD, KINGSWOOD, BRISTOL, BS15 4EJ
ODS code L81063
1.9 km
CADBURY HEATH HEALTHCARE
PARKWALL ROAD, BRISTOL, BS30 8HS
ODS code L81130
2.5 km
THE WELLSPRING SURGERY
BEAM STREET, REDFIELD, BRISTOL, BS5 9QY
ODS code L81061
2.6 km
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEECHWOOD ROAD, BRISTOL, BS16 3TD
ODS code L81087
2.9 km
FISHPONDS FAMILY PRACTICE
BEECHWOOD ROAD, BRISTOL, BS16 3TD
ODS code L81013
2.9 km
THE OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, MANOR ROAD, FISHPONDS, BRISTOL, BS16 2JD
ODS code L81075
3.2 km
EAST TREES HEALTH CENTRE
100A FISHPONDS ROAD, EASTVILLE, BRISTOL, BS5 6SA
ODS code L81023
3.4 km
LAWRENCE HILL HEALTH CENTRE
HASSELL DRIVE, EASTON, BRISTOL, BS2 0AN
ODS code L81089
3.5 km
CHARLOTTE KEEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
SEYMOUR ROAD, EASTON, BRISTOL, BS5 0UA
ODS code L81015
3.6 km
PRIORY SURGERY
326 WELLS ROAD, KNOWLE, BRISTOL, BS4 2QJ
ODS code L81084
3.7 km
THE DOWNEND HEALTH GROUP
CHRISTCHURCH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE, NORTH STREET, DOWNEND, BRISTOL, BS16 5SG
ODS code L81026
3.7 km
CLOSE FARM SURGERY
47 VICTORIA ROAD, WARMLEY, NORTH COMMON, BRISTOL, BS30 5JZ
ODS code L81050
3.8 km
WELLS ROAD SURGERY
233 WELLS ROAD, KNOWLE, BRISTOL, BS4 2DF
ODS code L81125
3.8 km
ST AUGUSTINE'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLOCK C,THE CHOCOLATE FAC, VIA TRAVERSUS, KEYNSHAM, BRISTOL, BS31 2GN
ODS code L81045
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 25 matching practices.
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
Bryants Hill
BCT · St George
- 0.1 miles
Bryants Hill
BCT · St George
- 0.1 miles
Furber Road
BCT · St George
- 0.1 miles
Kingsway Shops
BCT · St George
- 0.2 miles
Harcourt Avenue
BCT · St George
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bristol 033C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,154 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Recorded crime
3,942 published events cover 12 months, averaging 328.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,568 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.