Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stanchester Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA22 8QJ
Martock · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA22 8QJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA22
- Postcode sector
- BA22 8
- Latitude
- 50.965168
- Longitude
- -2.729932
- British National Grid easting
- 348,838
- British National Grid northing
- 118,671
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Martock · E05014369
- Parish or community
- E04008761
- Westminster constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton · E14001247
- Output area
- E00148819
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 017G · E01029214
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 017 · E02006091
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hamdon View, Marsh Lane, Tintinhull, Yeovil, BA22 8QJ | 31 March 2021 | £380,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Stanchester Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Hill View School
Free schools special
- 1.4 km
St Margaret's School, Tintinhull
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 69
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 33
- Public order 8
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Possession of weapons 4
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 36
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- BA22 8 residents
- 9,681
25 female, 11 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA22 8 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Cartgate Picnic Area
BCT · Stoke Sub Hamdon
- 0.7 miles
Montacute Road
BCT · Tintinhull
- 0.7 miles
Montacute Road
BCT · Tintinhull
- 0.8 miles
Stanchester Community School
BCT · Montacute
- 0.8 miles
Stanchester Community School
BCT · Montacute
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 017G, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,910 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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
Recorded crime
69 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 33 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.