Schools
7 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 855 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP5 4LU
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
- NP5
- Postcode sector
- NP5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP5 4LU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP5
- Postcode sector
- NP5 4
- Latitude
- 51.790995
- Longitude
- -2.634420
- British National Grid easting
- 356,340
- British National Grid northing
- 210,450
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
- E00113060
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 007C · E01022242
- 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
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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 855 m
St John's C of E Academy
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Coalway Primary School
Community school
- 2.6 km
Five Acres High School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 235
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 75
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Criminal damage and arson 27
- Public order 19
- Other theft 18
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Greenacres
BCT · Scowles
- 0.3 miles
Greenacres
BCT · Scowles
- 0.6 miles
Cherry Orchard Farm
BCT · Newland
- 0.6 miles
St John's School
BCT · Coleford
- 0.6 miles
Oakfields Estate
BCT · Coleford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 007C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,928 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
235 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 75 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.