Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 1 secondary schools. Warminster School is the nearest published school at 171 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA12 8WA
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 8WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 March 2003
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA12
- Postcode sector
- BA12 8
- Latitude
- 51.205686
- Longitude
- -2.191110
- British National Grid easting
- 386,745
- British National Grid northing
- 145,182
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
- E00163775
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 043C · E01032112
- 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
- 14
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 171 m
Warminster School
Other independent school
- 218 m
The Minster CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 569 m
Princecroft Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,075
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 355
- Shoplifting 178
- Anti social behaviour 177
- Criminal damage and arson 86
- Public order 75
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
1
within 5 km straight-line
AVENUE SURGERY
14 THE AVENUE, WARMINSTER, BA12 9AA
ODS code J83018
882 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Emwell Cross
BCT · Warminster
- 0.1 miles
Emwell Cross
BCT · Warminster
- 0.1 miles
Minster View
BCT · Warminster
- 0.2 miles
Grovelands Roundabout
BCT · Warminster
- 0.2 miles
Grovelands Roundabout
BCT · Warminster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 043C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,888 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
1,075 published events cover 12 months, averaging 89.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 355 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.