Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Dean Academy is the nearest published school at 230 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL15 5DR
Lydney West & Aylburton · Forest of Dean · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean
- Postcode district
- GL15
- Postcode sector
- GL15 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL15 5DR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL15
- Postcode sector
- GL15 5
- Latitude
- 51.723484
- Longitude
- -2.537967
- British National Grid easting
- 362,937
- British National Grid northing
- 202,888
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Forest of Dean · E07000080
- Electoral ward
- Lydney West & Aylburton · E05012167
- Parish or community
- E04004313
- Westminster constituency
- Forest of Dean · E14001240
- Output area
- E00112984
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 009A · E01022226
- Middle layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 009 · E02004634
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 GL15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 230 m
The Dean Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 467 m
Lydney Church of England Community School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Severnbanks Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 414
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 181
- Anti social behaviour 82
- Public order 33
- Criminal damage and arson 33
- Other theft 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL15 5 residents
- 9,529
Age bands in GL15 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
1,642 residents
1,008 residents
2,356 residents
2,611 residents
2,286 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
LYDNEY PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, ALBERT STREET, LYDNEY, GL15 5NQ
ODS code L84011
746 m
SEVERNBANK SURGERY
TUTNALLS STREET, LYDNEY, GL15 5PF
ODS code L84085
872 m
YORKLEY HEALTH CENTRE(WG)
BAILEY HILL, YORKLEY, LYDNEY, GL15 4RS
ODS code L84021
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Cross and Town Hall
BCT · Lydney
- 0.0 miles
Cross
BCT · Lydney
- 0.0 miles
Town Hall
BCT · Lydney
- 0.0 miles
Town Hall
BCT · Lydney
- 0.1 miles
Templeway
BCT · Lydney
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 009A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,406 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
414 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 181 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.