Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Oakfield Academy is the nearest published school at 279 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA11 3HF
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA11 3HF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA11
- Postcode sector
- BA11 3
- Latitude
- 51.231605
- Longitude
- -2.333655
- British National Grid easting
- 376,800
- British National Grid northing
- 148,100
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
- E00147903
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 004D · E01029043
- 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
- 19
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 279 m
Oakfield Academy
Academy converter
- 332 m
Wessex Lodge School
Other independent special school
- 455 m
Trinity Church of England First School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,253
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 880
- Anti social behaviour 268
- Public order 265
- Shoplifting 264
- Criminal damage and arson 202
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA11 3 residents
- 5,201
Age bands in BA11 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
934 residents
514 residents
1,263 residents
1,502 residents
1,009 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
FROME MEDICAL PRACTICE
ENOS WAY, FROME, BA11 2FH
ODS code L85008
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Portland Road
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Portland Road
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
The Old Nurseries
BCT · Frome
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 004D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,651 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
2,253 published events cover 12 months, averaging 187.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 880 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.