Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Vallis First School is the nearest published school at 465 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA11 3XA
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 3XA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA11
- Postcode sector
- BA11 3
- Latitude
- 51.235210
- Longitude
- -2.330816
- British National Grid easting
- 377,000
- British National Grid northing
- 148,500
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
- E00147907
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 001C · E01029044
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 001 · E02006047
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
- 465 m
Vallis First School
Community school
- 500 m
St Louis Catholic Primary School, Frome
Academy converter
- 502 m
Wessex Lodge School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,134
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 838
- Anti social behaviour 267
- Public order 257
- Shoplifting 224
- Criminal damage and arson 201
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
FROME MEDICAL PRACTICE
ENOS WAY, FROME, BA11 2FH
ODS code L85008
1.4 km
BECKINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
ST. LUKES ROAD, BECKINGTON, FROME, BA11 6SE
ODS code L85020
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Whatcombe Road
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Whatcombe Road
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Upper Whatcombe
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Upper Whatcombe
BCT · Frome
- 0.1 miles
Robins Lane
BCT · Frome
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 001C, 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
16,429 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
2,134 published events cover 12 months, averaging 177.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 838 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.