Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Shoscombe Church School is the nearest published school at 391 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA3 5YD
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 5YD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA3
- Postcode sector
- BA3 5
- Latitude
- 51.302154
- Longitude
- -2.402791
- British National Grid easting
- 372,016
- British National Grid northing
- 155,970
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
- E04008563
- Westminster constituency
- Frome and East Somerset · E14001241
- Output area
- E00147982
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 001E · E01029057
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 001 · E02006047
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Foxcote Cottage, Foxcote, Radstock, BA3 5YD | 30 October 2015 | £640,000 |
| Applethatch, Foxcote, Radstock, BA3 5YD | 1 April 2009 | £500,000 |
| Foxcote Cottage, Foxcote, Radstock, BA3 5YD | 12 May 2006 | £410,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 391 m
Shoscombe Church School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Peasedown St John Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Other theft 3
- Vehicle crime 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- BA3 5 residents
- 7,244
4 female, 6 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA3 5 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km
HILLCREST SURGERY
WELLOW LANE, PEASEDOWN ST. JOHN, BATH, BA2 8JQ
ODS code L81123
2.3 km
HOPE HOUSE SURGERY
HOPE HOUSE CENTRE, 10 WATERLOO ROAD, RADSTOCK, BA3 3EP
ODS code L81010
3.2 km
WESTFIELD SURGERY
51 WATERFORD PARK, RADSTOCK, BA3 3UJ
ODS code L81132
4.4 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
- 0.5 miles
Applecroft
BCT · White Hill
- 0.5 miles
Applecroft
BCT · White Hill
- 0.7 miles
Montague Road
BCT · Shoscombe Vale
- 0.7 miles
Montague Road
BCT · Shoscombe Vale
- 0.7 miles
Mico Bank
BCT · White Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 001E, 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
18,872 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.