Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Fiveways Special School is the nearest published school at 508 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA21 5HY
Yeovil East · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Yeovil East
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil
- Postcode district
- BA21
- Postcode sector
- BA21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA21 5HY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA21
- Postcode sector
- BA21 5
- Latitude
- 50.946346
- Longitude
- -2.607759
- British National Grid easting
- 357,400
- British National Grid northing
- 116,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Yeovil East · E05014391
- Parish or community
- E04008773
- Westminster constituency
- Yeovil · E14001603
- Output area
- E00148948
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 015D · E01029240
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 015 · E02006089
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 508 m
Fiveways Special School
Community special school
- 849 m
Pen Mill Infant and Nursery Academy
Academy converter
- 979 m
St. Michael's Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,380
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 992
- Shoplifting 355
- Anti social behaviour 279
- Public order 222
- Criminal damage and arson 155
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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
OAKLANDS SURGERY
BIRCHFIELD ROAD, YEOVIL, BA21 5RL
ODS code L85064
1.1 km
PENN HILL SURGERY, YEOVIL
ST. NICHOLAS CLOSE, YEOVIL, BA20 1SB
ODS code L85017
1.9 km
DIAMOND HEALTH GROUP
74 HENDFORD, YEOVIL, BA20 1UJ
ODS code L85022
2.3 km
PRESTON GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, YEOVIL
PRESTON GROVE, YEOVIL, BA20 2BQ
ODS code L85015
2.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Rosebery Avenue
BCT · Pen Mill
- 0.2 miles
Lyde Road
BCT · Pen Mill
- 0.2 miles
Clifton Close
BCT · Pen Mill
- 0.3 miles
Yeovil Pen Mill Rail Station
RSE · Yeovil
- 0.3 miles
Lyde Road
BCT · Yeovil
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 015D, 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
18,907 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
2,380 published events cover 12 months, averaging 198.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 992 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.