Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. St John's C of E Academy is the nearest published school at 596 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL16 8SH
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL16 8SH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL16
- Postcode sector
- GL16 8
- Latitude
- 51.792993
- Longitude
- -2.615454
- British National Grid easting
- 357,650
- British National Grid northing
- 210,661
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
- E00113058
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 007B · E01022241
- 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
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 596 m
St John's C of E Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Coalway Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Five Acres High School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 400
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 140
- Anti social behaviour 88
- Criminal damage and arson 44
- Public order 31
- Other theft 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL16 8 residents
- 6,952
Age bands in GL16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
1,053 residents
614 residents
1,527 residents
1,971 residents
1,818 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 50%
- 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
- 0.0 miles
Police Station
BCT · Coleford
- 0.0 miles
Police Station
BCT · Coleford
- 0.1 miles
Mushet Walk Set Down Only
BCT · Coleford
- 0.1 miles
Old Vicarage Court
BCT · Coleford
- 0.1 miles
Old Vicarage Court
BCT · Coleford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 007B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,950 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- 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
400 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 140 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.