Property market
The five-year median is £475,000 from 4 recorded sales in BA3 5WQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Somerset is £281,571 in June 2026, up 4.5% year on year.
BA3 5WQ
Mendip Central and East · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Radstock
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset
- Postcode district
- BA3
- Postcode sector
- BA3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA3 5WQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA3
- Postcode sector
- BA3 5
- Latitude
- 51.229014
- Longitude
- -2.470122
- British National Grid easting
- 367,270
- British National Grid northing
- 147,864
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Mendip Central and East · E05014370
- Parish or community
- E04008586
- Westminster constituency
- Frome and East Somerset · E14001241
- Output area
- E00147803
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 010A · E01029020
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 010 · E02006056
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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cookswood, 3 Bectorwood, Bector Lane, Stoke St Michael, Radstock, BA3 5WQ | 9 May 2024 | £450,000 |
| Cookswood, 17 Bectorwood, Bector Lane, Stoke St Michael, Radstock, BA3 5WQ | 28 March 2022 | £500,000 |
| Cookswood, 14 Bectorwood, Bector Lane, Stoke St Michael, Radstock, BA3 5WQ | 26 November 2021 | £375,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.2 km
Stoke St Michael Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.0 km
Bishop Henderson Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.2 km
Leigh On Mendip School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 44
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Other theft 4
- Vehicle crime 4
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA3 5 residents
- 7,244
Age bands in BA3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
1,145 residents
705 residents
1,430 residents
2,261 residents
1,742 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
2
within 5 km
MENDIP COUNTRY PRACTICE
CHURCH STREET, COLEFORD, RADSTOCK, BA3 5NQ
ODS code L85046
1.9 km
OAKHILL SURGERY
PONDSMEAD, SHEPTON ROAD, OAKHILL, RADSTOCK, BA3 5HT
ODS code L85611
3.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Duke of Cumberland
BCT · Edford
- 0.6 miles
Duke of Cumberland
BCT · Edford
- 0.8 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Stoke St Michael
- 0.8 miles
Bridge House
BCT · Stoke St Michael
- 0.8 miles
Bridge House
BCT · Stoke St Michael
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 010A, 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
17,706 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 0 secondary schools. Stoke St Michael Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
44 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.