Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 9 secondary schools. The Oakwood Academy is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NG6 8WY
Bestwood St Albans · Gedling · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bestwood St Albans
- Local authority
- Gedling
- Constituency
- Gedling
- Postcode district
- NG6
- Postcode sector
- NG6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NG6 8WY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 July 2005
- Postcode area
- NG
- Postcode district
- NG6
- Postcode sector
- NG6 8
- Latitude
- 53.031062
- Longitude
- -1.152595
- British National Grid easting
- 456,927
- British National Grid northing
- 348,531
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Gedling · E07000173
- Electoral ward
- Bestwood St Albans · E05009689
- Parish or community
- E04012751
- Westminster constituency
- Gedling · E14001245
- Output area
- E00173395
- Lower layer super output area
- Gedling 016A · E01028142
- Middle layer super output area
- Gedling 016 · E02006835
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 NG6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 9
- 1.8 km
The Oakwood Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.9 km
Hawthorne Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Bestwood Village School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 26
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Burglary 2
- Drugs 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NG6 8 residents
- 16,400
Age bands in NG6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.6%
3,526 residents
1,810 residents
4,443 residents
4,208 residents
2,585 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
16
within 5 km straight-line
RISE PARK SURGERY
OFF REVELSTOKE WAY, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 5EB
ODS code C84129
2.6 km
OAKENHALL MEDICAL PRACT
BOLSOVER STREET, HUCKNALL, NOTTINGHAM, NG15 7UA
ODS code C84095
3.2 km
STENHOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
66 FURLONG STREET, ARNOLD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 7BP
ODS code C84026
3.2 km
DAYBROOK MEDICAL PRACTICE
DAYBROOK HEALTH CENTRE, SALOP STREET, DAYBROOK, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 6HP
ODS code C84066
3.4 km
HIGHCROFT SURGERY
HIGH STREET, ARNOLD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 7BQ
ODS code C84055
3.4 km
THE OM SURGERY
112 WATNALL ROAD, HUCKNALL, NOTTINGHAM, NG15 7JP
ODS code Y00026
3.6 km
WHYBURN MEDICAL PRACTICE
CURTIS STREET, HUCKNALL, NOTTINGHAM, NG15 7JE
ODS code Y06443
3.6 km
TORKARD HILL MEDICAL CTRE
FARLEYS LANE, HUCKNALL, NOTTINGHAM, NG15 6DY
ODS code C84053
3.7 km
ST ALBANS MEDICAL CENTRE
HUCKNALL LANE, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 8AQ
ODS code C84004
3.8 km
SOUTHGLADE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SOUTHGLADE ROAD, BESTWOOD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 5GU
ODS code Y05622
3.9 km
THE ALICE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CARNWOOD ROAD, BESTWOOD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 5HW
ODS code C84695
4.1 km
TUDOR HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
138 EDWARDS LANE, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 3HU
ODS code C84619
4.5 km
HUCKNALL ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
KIBWORTH CLOSE, HEATHFIELD, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 1NA
ODS code C84078
4.7 km
LEEN VIEW SURGERY
BULWELL RIVERSIDE CENTRE, MAIN STREET, BULWELL, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 8QJ
ODS code C84043
4.7 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
BULWELL RIVERSIDE CENTRE, MAIN STREET, BULWELL, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 8QJ
ODS code C84064
4.7 km
THE CALVERTON PRACTICE
2A ST. WILFRIDS SQUARE, CALVERTON, NOTTINGHAM, NG14 6FP
ODS code C84047
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Lamins Lane
BCT · Leapool
- 0.8 miles
Lamins Lane
BCT · Leapool
- 1.0 miles
South Lodge
BCT · Papplewick
- 1.0 miles
South Lodge
BCT · Papplewick
- 1.2 miles
Stockdale Close
BCT · Warren Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gedling 016A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,726 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
26 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.