Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Tor School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA16 9XN
Mendip West · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Mendip West
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Postcode district
- BA16
- Postcode sector
- BA16 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA16 9XN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2003
- Terminated
- 1 July 2005
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA16
- Postcode sector
- BA16 9
- Latitude
- 51.152338
- Longitude
- -2.756476
- British National Grid easting
- 347,188
- British National Grid northing
- 139,504
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Mendip West · E05014373
- Parish or community
- E04008584
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00147972
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 012C · E01029055
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 012 · E02006058
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 BA16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.0 km
Tor School
Pupil referral unit
- 2.6 km
St Benedict's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.7 km
Meare Village Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA16 9 residents
- 2,579
Age bands in BA16 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
429 residents
261 residents
540 residents
688 residents
428 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
GLASTONBURY SURGERY
FEVERSHAM LANE, GLASTONBURY, BA6 9LP
ODS code L85039
2.5 km
GLASTONBURY HEALTH CENTRE
GLASTONBURY HEALTH & DENTAL CLINIC, 1 WELLS ROAD, GLASTONBURY, BA6 9DD
ODS code L85047
3.1 km
VINE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
VINE SURGERY, HINDHAYES LANE, STREET, BA16 0ET
ODS code L85029
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Rice Farm
BCT · Meare
- 0.8 miles
Rice Farm
BCT · Meare
- 1.3 miles
Morlands Enterprise Park
BCT · Glastonbury
- 1.3 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Stileway
- 1.3 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Stileway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 012C, 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
20,147 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.