Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Downside School is the nearest published school at 216 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA3 4XZ
Mendip Hills · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Mendip Hills
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset
- Postcode district
- BA3
- Postcode sector
- BA3 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA3 4XZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2002
- Terminated
- 1 November 2003
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA3
- Postcode sector
- BA3 4
- Latitude
- 51.252379
- Longitude
- -2.493273
- British National Grid easting
- 365,671
- British National Grid northing
- 150,473
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Mendip Hills · E05014371
- Parish or community
- E04008588
- Westminster constituency
- Frome and East Somerset · E14001241
- Output area
- E00165862
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 002D · E01029068
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 002 · E02006048
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 BA3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 216 m
Downside School
Other independent school
- 1.0 km
St Vigor & St John Church School
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Norton Hill Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 149
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 50
- Shoplifting 41
- Other theft 12
- Public order 11
- Burglary 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA3 4 residents
- 8,579
Age bands in BA3 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,504 residents
974 residents
1,840 residents
2,415 residents
1,863 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
MENDIP COUNTRY PRACTICE
CHURCH STREET, COLEFORD, RADSTOCK, BA3 5NQ
ODS code L85046
3.3 km
OAKHILL SURGERY
PONDSMEAD, SHEPTON ROAD, OAKHILL, RADSTOCK, BA3 5HT
ODS code L85611
3.9 km
SOMER VALLEY MEDICAL GROUP
GULLOCK TYNING, MIDSOMER NORTON, RADSTOCK, BA3 2UH
ODS code L81025
4.1 km
WESTFIELD SURGERY
51 WATERFORD PARK, RADSTOCK, BA3 3UJ
ODS code L81132
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bath View
BCT · Stratton on the Fosse
- 0.1 miles
Bath View
BCT · Stratton on the Fosse
- 0.2 miles
Downside Abbey
BCT · Stratton on the Fosse
- 0.2 miles
Downside Abbey
BCT · Stratton on the Fosse
- 0.4 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Stratton on the Fosse
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 002D, 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
14,779 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
149 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 50 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.