Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Westfield Academy is the nearest published school at 406 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA20 2DR
Yeovil West · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA20 2DR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA20
- Postcode sector
- BA20 2
- Latitude
- 50.945601
- Longitude
- -2.650794
- British National Grid easting
- 354,376
- British National Grid northing
- 116,443
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
- E00148983
- 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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 74, Preston Road, Yeovil, BA20 2DR | 7 August 2018 | £357,500 |
| 76, Preston Road, Yeovil, BA20 2DR | 4 January 2012 | £205,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 406 m
Westfield Academy
Academy converter
- 432 m
Preston School Academy
Academy converter
- 477 m
Oaklands Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,162
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,170
- Shoplifting 545
- Anti social behaviour 378
- Public order 361
- Criminal damage and arson 188
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- BA20 2 residents
- 8,723
1 female, 5 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA20 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
PRESTON GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, YEOVIL
PRESTON GROVE, YEOVIL, BA20 2BQ
ODS code L85015
620 m
DIAMOND HEALTH GROUP
74 HENDFORD, YEOVIL, BA20 1UJ
ODS code L85022
1.3 km
PENN HILL SURGERY, YEOVIL
ST. NICHOLAS CLOSE, YEOVIL, BA20 1SB
ODS code L85017
1.4 km
OAKLANDS SURGERY
BIRCHFIELD ROAD, YEOVIL, BA21 5RL
ODS code L85064
2.5 km
WEST COKER SURGERY
HIGH STREET, WEST COKER, YEOVIL, BA22 9AH
ODS code Y01163
3.8 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
University Centre
BCT · Summerlands
- 0.0 miles
University Centre
BCT · Summerlands
- 0.1 miles
Preston Grove
BCT · Summerlands
- 0.1 miles
Preston Grove
BCT · Summerlands
- 0.2 miles
Preston Grove
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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,162 published events cover 12 months, averaging 263.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,170 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.