Schools
94 open schools are in scope, including 63 primary and 9 secondary schools. Carlton Digby School is the nearest published school at 62 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NG3 6EA
Porchester · Gedling · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Porchester
- Local authority
- Gedling
- Constituency
- Gedling
- Postcode district
- NG3
- Postcode sector
- NG3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NG3 6EA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2015
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NG
- Postcode district
- NG3
- Postcode sector
- NG3 6
- Latitude
- 52.983063
- Longitude
- -1.106422
- British National Grid easting
- 460,090
- British National Grid northing
- 343,229
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Gedling · E07000173
- Electoral ward
- Porchester · E05009704
- Parish or community
- E43000125
- Westminster constituency
- Gedling · E14001245
- Output area
- E00143651
- Lower layer super output area
- Gedling 010A · E01028193
- Middle layer super output area
- Gedling 010 · E02005874
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 NG3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 94
- Primary
- 63
- Secondary
- 9
- 62 m
Carlton Digby School
Community special school
- 81 m
Westdale Junior School
Academy converter
- 140 m
Westdale Infant and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,410
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 591
- Anti social behaviour 178
- Criminal damage and arson 123
- Vehicle crime 90
- Other theft 88
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 32
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- NG3 6 residents
- 10,073
25 female, 7 male
Age bands in NG3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,727 residents
930 residents
2,936 residents
3,051 residents
2,145 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NG3 6 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
32
within 5 km
WEST OAK SURGERY
319 WESTDALE LANE, MAPPERLEY, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 6EW
ODS code C84696
179 m
UNITY SURGERY
318 WESTDALE LANE, MAPPERLEY, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 6EU
ODS code C84150
355 m
PLAINS VIEW SURGERY
57 PLAINS ROAD, MAPPERLEY, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 5LB
ODS code C84115
903 m
WESTDALE LANE SURGERY
20-22 WESTDALE LANE, CARLTON, GEDLING, NOTTINGHAM, NG4 3JA
ODS code C84033
2.0 km
JUBILEE PARK MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
61 BURTON ROAD, CARLTON, NOTTINGHAM, NG4 3DQ
ODS code C84613
2.2 km
ELMSWOOD SURGERY
ELMSWOOD GARDENS, SHERWOOD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 4AD
ODS code C84011
2.4 km
BAKERSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
141 OAKDALE ROAD, BAKERSFIELD, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 7EJ
ODS code C84693
2.5 km
HIGHCROFT SURGERY
HIGH STREET, ARNOLD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 7BQ
ODS code C84055
2.8 km
WELBECK SURGERY
481-491 MANSFIELD ROAD, SHERWOOD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 2JJ
ODS code C84664
2.8 km
STENHOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
66 FURLONG STREET, ARNOLD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 7BP
ODS code C84026
2.9 km
TRENTSIDE MEDICAL GROUP
TRENTSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, KNIGHT STREET, NETHERFIELD, NOTTINGHAM, NG4 2FN
ODS code C84010
3.0 km
TUDOR HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
138 EDWARDS LANE, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 3HU
ODS code C84619
3.0 km
DAYBROOK MEDICAL PRACTICE
DAYBROOK HEALTH CENTRE, SALOP STREET, DAYBROOK, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 6HP
ODS code C84066
3.1 km
GREENDALE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
249 SNEINTON DALE, SNEINTON, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 7DQ
ODS code C84063
3.1 km
THE WELLSPRING SURGERY
ST. ANNS VALLEY CENTRE, 2 LIVINGSTONE ROAD, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 3GG
ODS code C84072
3.1 km
SHERRINGTON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
402 MANSFIELD ROAD, SHERWOOD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 2EJ
ODS code C84682
3.1 km
THE FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE
171 CARLTON ROAD, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 2FW
ODS code C84018
3.2 km
SHERWOOD RISE MEDICAL CENTRE
31 NOTTINGHAM ROAD, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 7AD
ODS code C84628
3.9 km
VICTORIA AND MAPPERLEY PRACTICE
GLASSHOUSE STREET, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 3LW
ODS code C84085
3.9 km
THE WINDMILL PRACTICE
BEAUMONT STREET, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 4PJ
ODS code C84683
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 32 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Fernleigh Avenue
BCT · Porchester
- 0.1 miles
Fernleigh Avenue
BCT · Porchester
- 0.2 miles
Holyoake Road
BCT · Carlton
- 0.2 miles
Holyoake Road
BCT · Carlton
- 0.2 miles
Elmhurst Avenue
BCT · Carlton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gedling 010A, 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
25,498 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
- 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
1,410 published events cover 12 months, averaging 117.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 591 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.