Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Chilton Bridge School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA22 8HY
Castle Cary · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Castle Cary
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton
- Postcode district
- BA22
- Postcode sector
- BA22 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA22 8HY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA22
- Postcode sector
- BA22 8
- Latitude
- 51.019919
- Longitude
- -2.638664
- British National Grid easting
- 355,300
- British National Grid northing
- 124,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Castle Cary · E05014350
- Parish or community
- E04013157
- Westminster constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton · E14001247
- Output area
- E00166001
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 006D · E01029199
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 006 · E02006080
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 BA22
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.0 km
Chilton Bridge School
Other independent special school
- 3.2 km
Ilchester Community School
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- 4.2 km
Countess Gytha Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 40
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 16
- Public order 9
- Other theft 5
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA22 8 residents
- 9,681
Age bands in BA22 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
1,708 residents
1,398 residents
2,726 residents
2,525 residents
1,838 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
QUEEN CAMEL MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST CAMEL ROAD, QUEEN CAMEL, YEOVIL, BA22 7LT
ODS code L85044
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Fury Car Park
BCT · Yeovilton
- 0.3 miles
Fleet Air Arm Museum
BCT · Stockwitch Cross
- 0.3 miles
Fleet Air Arm Museum
BCT · Stockwitch Cross
- 0.5 miles
Podimore Inn
BCT · Podimore
- 0.5 miles
Podimore Inn
BCT · Podimore
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 006D, 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
19,556 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
40 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 16 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.