Property market
The five-year median is £550,000 from 1 recorded sale in BA21 5BY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dorset is £325,410 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
BA21 5BY
Sherborne Rural · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Yeovil
- Ward
- Sherborne Rural
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- BA21
- Postcode sector
- BA21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA21 5BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA21
- Postcode sector
- BA21 5
- Latitude
- 50.941538
- Longitude
- -2.607170
- British National Grid easting
- 357,437
- British National Grid northing
- 115,965
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Sherborne Rural · E05012716
- Parish or community
- E04003504
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00103913
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 008A · E01020497
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 008 · E02004270
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 BA21
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Babylon Motor Centre, Babylon Hill, Yeovil, BA21 5BY | 22 May 2026 | £550,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 905 m
Fiveways Special School
Community special school
- 1.1 km
Pen Mill Infant and Nursery Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
St. Michael's Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,038
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 790
- Shoplifting 351
- Anti social behaviour 244
- Public order 210
- Criminal damage and arson 134
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA21 5 residents
- 11,613
Age bands in BA21 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.9%
2,334 residents
1,264 residents
3,437 residents
2,808 residents
1,999 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.
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
4
within 5 km
OAKLANDS SURGERY
BIRCHFIELD ROAD, YEOVIL, BA21 5RL
ODS code L85064
1.6 km
PENN HILL SURGERY, YEOVIL
ST. NICHOLAS CLOSE, YEOVIL, BA20 1SB
ODS code L85017
1.8 km
DIAMOND HEALTH GROUP
74 HENDFORD, YEOVIL, BA20 1UJ
ODS code L85022
2.2 km
PRESTON GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, YEOVIL
PRESTON GROVE, YEOVIL, BA20 2BQ
ODS code L85015
2.6 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
- 0.1 miles
Yeovil Bridge
BCT · Yeovil
- 0.1 miles
Yeovil Bridge
BCT · Yeovil
- 0.3 miles
Yeovil Pen Mill Rail Station
RLY · Yeovil
- 0.3 miles
Yeovil Pen Mill Rail Station
RSE · Yeovil
- 0.4 miles
Pen Mill Station
BCT · Pen Mill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 008A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,831 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 0
- 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
Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Fiveways Special School is the nearest published school at 905 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,038 published events cover 12 months, averaging 169.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 790 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.