Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Thornwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 232 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP16 5RW
Bulwark and Thornwell · Monmouthshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire
- Postcode district
- NP16
- Postcode sector
- NP16 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP16 5RW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP16
- Postcode sector
- NP16 5
- Latitude
- 51.623034
- Longitude
- -2.670040
- British National Grid easting
- 353,712
- British National Grid northing
- 191,792
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Monmouthshire · W06000021
- Electoral ward
- Bulwark and Thornwell · W05001762
- Parish or community
- W04001060
- Westminster constituency
- Monmouthshire · W07000101
- Output area
- W00008298
- Lower layer super output area
- Monmouthshire 008D · W01001592
- Middle layer super output area
- Monmouthshire 008 · W02000343
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 NP16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 232 m
Thornwell Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.1 km
Pembroke Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.6 km
Cysgod Y Coed
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 460
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 183
- Anti social behaviour 76
- Public order 50
- Criminal damage and arson 30
- Other theft 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 43
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- NP16 5 residents
- 10,857
15 female, 28 male
Age bands in NP16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.6%
1,640 residents
1,036 residents
2,640 residents
3,128 residents
2,325 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NP16 5 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+
- 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
VAUXHALL SURGERY
VAUXHALL LANE, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5PZ
ODS code W93020
1.9 km
MOUNT PLEASANT PRACTICE
CHEPSTOW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, TEMPEST WAY, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5XR
ODS code W93021
2.1 km
TOWN GATE PRACTICE
CHEPSTOW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, TEMPEST WAY, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5XP
ODS code W93022
2.1 km
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
Conway Drive
BCT · Bulwark
- 0.1 miles
Conway Drive
BCT · Bulwark
- 0.1 miles
Thornwell Primary School
BCT · Bulwark
- 0.1 miles
Thornwell Primary School
BCT · Bulwark
- 0.1 miles
Old Farm Shopping Centre
BCT · Bulwark
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
460 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 183 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.