Portishead
TownTown in North Somerset, South West.
Portishead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Portishead add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 93% of people in Portishead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Portishead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Portishead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Portishead at a rate of 69.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 114 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Portishead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (745), other crime (328) and anti-social behaviour (307).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Portishead was 68.6 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Portishead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Portishead has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Portishead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Somerset 001B | 1,572 | 56.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 79.4% |
| North Somerset 001C | 1,477 | 71.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.3% |
| North Somerset 001D | 1,814 | 121.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.4% |
| North Somerset 001E | 1,607 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.1% |
| North Somerset 001F | 2,000 | 91.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.9% |
| North Somerset 001G | 1,310 | 234.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 69.1% |
| North Somerset 002A | 1,363 | 20.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.6% |
| North Somerset 002B | 1,525 | 148.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| North Somerset 002C | 1,766 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.0% |
| North Somerset 002D | 1,487 | 17.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| North Somerset 003B | 1,814 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.1% |
| North Somerset 003C | 1,790 | 42.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.7% |
| North Somerset 003D | 1,946 | 110.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 78.2% |
| North Somerset 003E | 1,584 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| North Somerset 003F | 1,049 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.2% |
| North Somerset 006H | 1,331 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.9% |
| North Somerset 006I | 1,818 | 77.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 78.0% |
Your MP
- Sadik Al-HassanLabourMP for North Somerset
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Portishead1
Middle areas in Portishead3
Towns near Portishead6
Portishead in brief
Portishead is a town in North Somerset, South West.
About 26,591 people lived in Portishead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £389,475 in 2025 across 470 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Portishead was £389,475 in 2025.
Portishead had 26,351 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Portishead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Portishead, 88.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.