Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 3 secondary schools. Fromefield Manor School is the nearest published school at 291 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA11 1BD
Frome West · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Frome West
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset
- Postcode district
- BA11
- Postcode sector
- BA11 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA11 1BD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2015
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA11
- Postcode sector
- BA11 1
- Latitude
- 51.232317
- Longitude
- -2.320111
- British National Grid easting
- 377,746
- British National Grid northing
- 148,175
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Frome West · E05014362
- Parish or community
- E04008560
- Westminster constituency
- Frome and East Somerset · E14001241
- Output area
- E00165856
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 004E · E01029045
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 004 · E02006050
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 BA11
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 3
- 291 m
Fromefield Manor School
Other independent special school
- 316 m
St Louis Catholic Primary School, Frome
Academy converter
- 352 m
Vallis First School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,666
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,084
- Anti social behaviour 319
- Public order 297
- Shoplifting 294
- Criminal damage and arson 240
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA11 1 residents
- 6,627
Age bands in BA11 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.8%
1,296 residents
650 residents
1,782 residents
1,796 residents
1,115 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
FROME MEDICAL PRACTICE
ENOS WAY, FROME, BA11 2FH
ODS code L85008
816 m
BECKINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
ST. LUKES ROAD, BECKINGTON, FROME, BA11 6SE
ODS code L85020
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Market Place
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Car Park
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Market Place
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Mendip East Slinky - Frome destination D
BCT · Frome
- 0.2 miles
North Hill House
BCT · Frome
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 004E, 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
16,302 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,666 published events cover 12 months, averaging 222.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,084 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.