Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Five Acres High School is the nearest published school at 754 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL16 7FL
Coleford · Forest of Dean · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Coleford
- Local authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean
- Postcode district
- GL16
- Postcode sector
- GL16 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL16 7FL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL16
- Postcode sector
- GL16 7
- Latitude
- 51.806360
- Longitude
- -2.619436
- British National Grid easting
- 357,388
- British National Grid northing
- 212,150
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Forest of Dean · E07000080
- Electoral ward
- Coleford · E05012160
- Parish or community
- E04004301
- Westminster constituency
- Forest of Dean · E14001240
- Output area
- E00113060
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 007C · E01022242
- Middle layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 007 · E02004632
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 GL16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 754 m
Five Acres High School
Academy sponsor led
- 805 m
Berry Hill Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.3 km
St John's C of E Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 283
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 107
- Anti social behaviour 56
- Criminal damage and arson 38
- Other theft 22
- Public order 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL16 7 residents
- 7,246
Age bands in GL16 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.9%
1,061 residents
696 residents
1,378 residents
2,189 residents
1,962 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.
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Crow Ash Road
BCT · Berry Hill
- 0.1 miles
King's Head Car Park
BCT · Berry Hill
- 0.1 miles
King's Head Car Park
BCT · Berry Hill
- 0.1 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Berry Hill
- 0.1 miles
Petrol Station
BCT · Berry Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 007C, 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
13,928 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
283 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 107 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.