Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Dean Close St John's is the nearest published school at 261 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP16 7QJ
Tidenham · Forest of Dean · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tidenham
- Local authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean
- Postcode district
- NP16
- Postcode sector
- NP16 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP16 7QJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 March 2001
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP16
- Postcode sector
- NP16 7
- Latitude
- 51.646473
- Longitude
- -2.672004
- British National Grid easting
- 353,600
- British National Grid northing
- 194,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Forest of Dean · E07000080
- Electoral ward
- Tidenham · E05012175
- Parish or community
- E04004329
- Westminster constituency
- Forest of Dean · E14001240
- Output area
- E00113240
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 010E · E01022275
- Middle layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 010 · E02004635
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
- 261 m
Dean Close St John's
Other independent school
- 613 m
The Dell Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 691 m
Chepstow School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 932
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 261
- Shoplifting 177
- Anti social behaviour 124
- Public order 95
- Other theft 64
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NP16 7 residents
- 6,299
Age bands in NP16 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
995 residents
666 residents
1,446 residents
1,535 residents
1,458 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
VAUXHALL SURGERY
VAUXHALL LANE, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5PZ
ODS code W93020
1.0 km
MOUNT PLEASANT PRACTICE
CHEPSTOW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, TEMPEST WAY, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5XR
ODS code W93021
1.3 km
TOWN GATE PRACTICE
CHEPSTOW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, TEMPEST WAY, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5XP
ODS code W93022
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chepstow Museum
BCT · Chepstow
- 0.1 miles
Somerset Cottages
BCT · Chepstow
- 0.2 miles
Davis Court
BCT · Chepstow
- 0.2 miles
Watchtower Way
BCT · Tutshill
- 0.3 miles
Police Station
BCT · Tutshill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 010E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,087 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
932 published events cover 12 months, averaging 77.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 261 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.