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Portishead

Portishead is a town in Bristol, England, with a population of around 26,355. It has 1 restaurant & café, 10 bus stops, and Avonmouth railway station 4 km away. There were around 119 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly Violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Portishead area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Bristol, City of area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 472,464 residents at roughly 4,308 people per km².

Council
Bristol, City of
County
Bristol
Constituency
Bristol North West
Police force
Avon and Somerset
24/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 287th of 294 English council areas — better than 2% of them.

Low crime10
Home affordability49
Affordable rents10
Good schools17
Life expectancy33
Low deprivation41
Employment38
Low council tax2

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

9°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 10° / 8° · 40% rain
  • Tomorrow: 9° / 6° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:09Sunset 16:39

9h 29m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chepstow A48, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

96 reported · August 2026▼ 36% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences42
  • Anti-social behaviour18
  • Criminal damage & arson9
  • Other theft8

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Portishead · Avon And Somerset

Local policing priorities

  • Retail theft remains a significant issue across the country, with businesses - from small independent shops to large national retailers -…
  • To tackle ongoing ASB and Public Space Protection Orders (PSPO) breaches at the Lake Grounds through high-visibility patrols, engagement…

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

753 reported road collisions (2025)

205 killed or seriously injured · 844 casualties · 15.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

103 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 91 rated 4–5 ★ (70 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Avonmouth (5.3 km)
  • 62 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Avonmouth (5.3 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£353,596 average▲ 0.9% YoY

Across Bristol, City of · to 2026-08

Detached£689,673
Semi-detached£448,153
Terraced£385,199
Flat£242,445

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,883 average monthly rent▲ 5.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,225
  • 2 bed £1,544
  • 3 bed £1,759

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

8.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.3 times median annual pay (8.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

5,684 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (11.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Esso (11.3 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

16 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 120 kW
  • Nearest: Portishead Park-Bristol (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres5
  • Gyms6
  • Swimming pools5
  • Sports pitches38
  • Playgrounds17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

472,464 residents in Bristol, City of · 4,308/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 70%
  • 65+: 13%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK42,460
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK46,335
  • Net moves−3,875

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 123 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

11% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,714 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (36% of 212,810)

A £1,809
B £2,111
C £2,412
D £2,714
E £3,317
F £3,920
G £4,523
H £5,427

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

173 schools · 69,087 pupils

102 primary · 22 secondary · 49 other

Ofsted: 63 of 79 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (80%)

152 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Ashton Park SchoolGood
  • Blaise High SchoolGood
  • Bristol Cathedral Choir SchoolGood
  • Bristol Free SchoolGood
  • Bristol Metropolitan AcademyGood
  • Oasis Academy BrislingtonGood
  • Oasis Academy John WilliamsGood
  • Redland Green SchoolGood
  • Trinity AcademyGood
  • E-ACT Montpelier High SchoolInadequate
  • Bedminster Down School
  • Bristol Brunel Academy
  • Cotham School
  • Fairfield High School
  • Oasis Academy Brightstowe
  • Oasis Academy Daventry Road
  • Oasis Academy Temple Quarter
  • Orchard School Bristol
  • St Bede's Catholic College
  • St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School
  • St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School
  • The City Academy Bristol

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bristol, City of

Care & health services

417 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes92
  • GP practices69
  • Dentists104
  • Homecare agencies95
  • Hospitals & hospices15

CQC ratings: 98% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Bristol, City of

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 35 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

552 applications decided

85.5% granted · 472 granted, 80 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Sadik Al-Hassan

Labour

North Somerset

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Green (minority)

  • Lab 19
  • Con 7
  • LD 9
  • Grn 34
  • Oth 1

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools7
  • GPs & clinics2
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets5
  • Parks & greens46
  • Restaurants & cafés40

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

22,300 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

60 jobs advertised · £41,510 avg

e.g. Senior Embedded Software Engineer, English Teacher, Gas Engineer

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£781 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,336 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

45% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 237,774 certificates

10.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

6% low-carbon electricity

Gas 94% · Wind 6%

370 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 83.4 yrs women · 79.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 60.1 women · 60.1 men

59% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.3
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

5 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in BS20

  • Portishead Medical Group
  • Heywood Family Practice
  • Harbourside Family Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North Somerset:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Portishead railway station (WCPR) · 0.3 km

    Portishead railway station served the town of Portishead, Somerset, England from 1907 to 1940 on the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway.

  • Portishead, Somerset · 0.5 km

    Portishead is a town and civil parish in the North Somerset unitary authority area, in the county of Somerset, England. With a population of 26,366 at the 2021 Census, the town is located on the Severn Estuary opposit…

  • Portishead Radio · 0.6 km

    Portishead Radio was a radio station in England that provided worldwide maritime communications and long-range aeronautical communications from 1928 until 2000. It was the world's largest and busiest long-distance HF…

  • Portishead South railway station · 0.7 km

    Portishead South railway station served the town of Portishead, Somerset, England from 1907 to 1940 on the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway.

  • Gordano School · 0.8 km

    Gordano School is a comprehensive school with academy status located in Portishead, North Somerset, England. In 1999, the school was awarded Specialist schools Technology College status. Gordano School has 2,100 pupil…

  • Portishead Town F.C. · 0.9 km

    Portishead Town Football Club, formerly Portishead A.F.C., are a football club based in Portishead, North Somerset, England founded in 1912. The men's first team are currently members of the Western League Premier Div…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Portishead?
Portishead is a town in Bristol, England, in the Bristol, City of local authority.
What is the population of Portishead?
Portishead has an approximate settlement population of 26,355.
How deprived is Portishead?
The Bristol, City of local authority, which includes Portishead, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.