Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Mere School is the nearest published school at 752 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA12 6BS
Mere · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Mere
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire
- Postcode district
- BA12
- Postcode sector
- BA12 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA12 6BS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2017
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA12
- Postcode sector
- BA12 6
- Latitude
- 51.084522
- Longitude
- -2.262780
- British National Grid easting
- 381,690
- British National Grid northing
- 131,723
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Mere · E05013450
- Parish or community
- E04013465
- Westminster constituency
- South West Wiltshire · E14001498
- Output area
- E00163404
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 050B · E01032035
- Middle layer super output area
- Wiltshire 050 · E02006665
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 BA12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 752 m
Mere School
Community school
- 3.4 km
Milton-on-Stour Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.6 km
Whitesheet Church of England Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 179
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 69
- Anti social behaviour 35
- Shoplifting 27
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Other theft 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA12 6 residents
- 4,397
Age bands in BA12 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.9%
604 residents
356 residents
719 residents
1,257 residents
1,507 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
MERE SURGERY
DARK LANE, MERE, WARMINSTER, BA12 6DT
ODS code J83060
621 m
SILTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, GILLINGHAM ROAD, SILTON, GILLINGHAM, SP8 5DF
ODS code J83629
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Southbrook
BCT · Mere
- 0.1 miles
Southbrook
BCT · Mere
- 0.1 miles
Edge Bridge
BCT · Mere
- 0.1 miles
Edge Bridge
BCT · Mere
- 0.4 miles
Car Park
BCT · Mere
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 050B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,642 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
179 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 69 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.