Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Preston School Academy is the nearest published school at 402 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA20 2DH
Yeovil West · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Yeovil West
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil
- Postcode district
- BA20
- Postcode sector
- BA20 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA20 2DH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA20
- Postcode sector
- BA20 2
- Latitude
- 50.942503
- Longitude
- -2.653256
- British National Grid easting
- 354,200
- British National Grid northing
- 116,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Yeovil West · E05014393
- Parish or community
- E04008773
- Westminster constituency
- Yeovil · E14001603
- Output area
- E00165999
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 016B · E01029245
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 016 · E02006090
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 BA20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 402 m
Preston School Academy
Academy converter
- 456 m
Oaklands Primary School
Community school
- 786 m
Westfield Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,838
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,095
- Shoplifting 460
- Anti social behaviour 328
- Public order 324
- Criminal damage and arson 173
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA20 2 residents
- 8,723
Age bands in BA20 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
1,405 residents
907 residents
2,083 residents
2,396 residents
2,133 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
PRESTON GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, YEOVIL
PRESTON GROVE, YEOVIL, BA20 2BQ
ODS code L85015
635 m
DIAMOND HEALTH GROUP
74 HENDFORD, YEOVIL, BA20 1UJ
ODS code L85022
1.2 km
PENN HILL SURGERY, YEOVIL
ST. NICHOLAS CLOSE, YEOVIL, BA20 1SB
ODS code L85017
1.5 km
OAKLANDS SURGERY
BIRCHFIELD ROAD, YEOVIL, BA21 5RL
ODS code L85064
2.8 km
WEST COKER SURGERY
HIGH STREET, WEST COKER, YEOVIL, BA22 9AH
ODS code Y01163
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Preston Grove
BCT · Summerlands
- 0.1 miles
Preston Grove
BCT · Summerlands
- 0.2 miles
Preston Grove
BCT · Summerlands
- 0.2 miles
Preston Grove
BCT · Summerlands
- 0.2 miles
Preston School
BCT · Summerlands
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 016B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,528 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
2,838 published events cover 12 months, averaging 236.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,095 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.