Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Tor School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA16 9YE
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 9YE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA16
- Postcode sector
- BA16 9
- Latitude
- 51.151385
- Longitude
- -2.759149
- British National Grid easting
- 347,000
- British National Grid northing
- 139,400
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
- 15
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.1 km
Tor School
Pupil referral unit
- 2.6 km
Meare Village Primary School
Community school
- 2.8 km
St Benedict's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School
Voluntary aided 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
2.6 km
VINE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
VINE SURGERY, HINDHAYES LANE, STREET, BA16 0ET
ODS code L85029
3.2 km
GLASTONBURY HEALTH CENTRE
GLASTONBURY HEALTH & DENTAL CLINIC, 1 WELLS ROAD, GLASTONBURY, BA6 9DD
ODS code L85047
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Rice Farm
BCT · Meare
- 0.9 miles
Rice Farm
BCT · Meare
- 1.3 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Stileway
- 1.3 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Stileway
- 1.5 miles
Fielding Road
BCT · Street
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.