BS1 4UT Bristol, City of

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Central. Region: South West.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Bristol, City of in 2026-27: Band D £2,714 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,809£2,111£2,412£2,714£3,317£3,920£4,523£5,427

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band D (30% of about 890 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, College Green (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 37.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Ashley Ward, Cabot Ward, Clifton East Ward, Cotham Ward and Lawrence Hill Ward (1999 ward boundary).
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

And 7 more.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 1 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The postcode's addresses are about 10 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsBristol Temple Meads 11 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km
Bedminster 141,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km
Clifton Down 818,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km
Bus stops23 stops within 400 m, 69 within 800 m; nearest The Centre Bristol City Centre40 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bristol720 m
Ferry terminalBristol City Centre Ferry Landing110 m
Car parks11 within 800 m; nearest Trenchard Street Car Park220 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km; nearest Roam Charging Station120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS11.4 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Broadmead Medical Centre770 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots50 m
NHS dentists20 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Telephone Avenue Dental Surgery170 m
HospitalBft Southmead Bristol Children's Hospital520 m
Police stationThe Bridewell Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police590 m
Cash machines9 machines within 800 m; nearest Tesco Bank ATM120 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden8 within 800 m; nearest College Green 9,010 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 mBrandon Hill 8.4 ha430 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 250 m²560 m
Playing fieldSouth Street Park 1.2 ha1.6 km
AllotmentsUnnamed 850 m²1.8 km

Within 800 m: 8 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Neptune Statue, a listed building (Grade II*), 60 m east. 669 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 21 of them Grade I and 94 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Neptune StatueListed building, Grade II*60 m east
Numbers 20 to 24 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*110 m north-west
Numbers 25 and 26 and Attached Front Area Railings and LampListed building, Grade II*120 m north-west
Numbers 27, 28 and 29 and Attached Front Area Railings and GatesListed building, Grade II*120 m north-west
Part of Bristol city wall 185m west of Bristol BridgeScheduled monument300 m east
Section of City Wall, King StreetScheduled monument320 m east
Vault in High StreetScheduled monument450 m east
Goldney HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.1 km west
Arnos Vale CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.6 km south-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Brandon HillHill620 m west
New CutLake or reservoir840 m south-west
BellevueHill1.6 km south-east
Observatory HillHill2.0 km west
Malago ValeValley2.1 km south
Rownham PlantationWood2.4 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)14.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
75 dB or more40
70 to 74160
Under 55020

20 of the postcode's 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 1,667 residents in 192 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age1940
Children under 15under 1%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)23%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented74%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work19%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)31%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van11%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle35%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualificationsunder 1%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Baldwin Street.