Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Mere School is the nearest published school at 2.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA12 7HS
Mere · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Warminster
- Ward
- Mere
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire
- Postcode district
- BA12
- Postcode sector
- BA12 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA12 7HS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA12
- Postcode sector
- BA12 7
- Latitude
- 51.128301
- Longitude
- -2.283749
- British National Grid easting
- 380,240
- British National Grid northing
- 136,597
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Mere · E05013450
- Parish or community
- E04011743
- Westminster constituency
- South West Wiltshire · E14001498
- Output area
- E00163397
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 050C · E01032036
- 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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Wisteria Cottage, Norton Ferris, Warminster, BA12 7HS | 28 October 2013 | £450,000 |
| Wisteria Cottage, Norton Ferris, Warminster, BA12 7HS | 1 April 2004 | £390,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.4 km
Mere School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- BA12 7 residents
- 3,371
6 female, 7 male
Age bands in BA12 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.1%
392 residents
236 residents
503 residents
1,042 residents
934 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA12 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 66.7%
- 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
MERE SURGERY
DARK LANE, MERE, WARMINSTER, BA12 6DT
ODS code J83060
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Norton Ferris
- 0.8 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Norton Ferris
- 1.3 miles
Brookside
BCT · Kilmington
- 1.3 miles
Brookside
BCT · Kilmington
- 1.5 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Maiden Bradley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 050C, 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
13,558 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Possible
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.