Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 1 secondary schools. Warminster School is the nearest published school at 736 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA12 8SW
Warminster West · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Warminster West
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire
- Postcode district
- BA12
- Postcode sector
- BA12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA12 8SW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA12
- Postcode sector
- BA12 8
- Latitude
- 51.210468
- Longitude
- -2.197587
- British National Grid easting
- 386,294
- British National Grid northing
- 145,715
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Warminster West · E05013488
- Parish or community
- E04012702
- Westminster constituency
- South West Wiltshire · E14001498
- Output area
- E00163796
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 043B · E01032111
- Middle layer super output area
- Wiltshire 043 · E02006693
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
- 15
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 736 m
Warminster School
Other independent school
- 913 m
The Minster CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 935 m
Princecroft Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 884
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 286
- Shoplifting 156
- Anti social behaviour 149
- Criminal damage and arson 73
- Public order 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA12 8 residents
- 9,432
Age bands in BA12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
1,508 residents
1,004 residents
2,216 residents
2,941 residents
2,297 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
AVENUE SURGERY
14 THE AVENUE, WARMINSTER, BA12 9AA
ODS code J83018
1.4 km
WESTBURY GROUP PRACTICE
WHITE HORSE HEALTH CENTRE, MANE WAY, LEIGH PARK, WESTBURY, BA13 3FQ
ODS code J83040
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Furnax Lane
BCT · Warminster
- 0.2 miles
Furnax Lane
BCT · Warminster
- 0.3 miles
Were Close
BCT · Warminster
- 0.3 miles
Were Close
BCT · Warminster
- 0.3 miles
Minster View
BCT · Warminster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 043B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,578 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
884 published events cover 12 months, averaging 73.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 286 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.