Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Newbury Manor School is the nearest published school at 950 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA3 5ZG
Mendip Central and East · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 5ZG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA3
- Postcode sector
- BA3 5
- Latitude
- 51.245886
- Longitude
- -2.424735
- British National Grid easting
- 370,450
- British National Grid northing
- 149,721
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
- E04008572
- Westminster constituency
- Frome and East Somerset · E14001241
- Output area
- E00147956
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 001D · E01029053
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 950 m
Newbury Manor School
Other independent special school
- 2.1 km
Mells Church First School
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
Bishop Henderson Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
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
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Vehicle crime 2
- Burglary 1
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+
- 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
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
MENDIP COUNTRY PRACTICE
CHURCH STREET, COLEFORD, RADSTOCK, BA3 5NQ
ODS code L85046
1.8 km
WESTFIELD SURGERY
51 WATERFORD PARK, RADSTOCK, BA3 3UJ
ODS code L81132
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Vobster
- 0.3 miles
The Bus Shelter
BCT · Vobster
- 0.4 miles
Vobster Inn
BCT · Vobster
- 0.4 miles
Vobster Inn
BCT · Vobster
- 0.4 miles
Vobster Inn
BCT · Vobster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 001D, 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
13,667 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
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.