Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Bowlish Infant School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA4 4JD
Shepton Mallet · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shepton Mallet
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Postcode district
- BA4
- Postcode sector
- BA4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA4 4JD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA4
- Postcode sector
- BA4 4
- Latitude
- 51.205591
- Longitude
- -2.553909
- British National Grid easting
- 361,400
- British National Grid northing
- 145,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Shepton Mallet · E05014378
- Parish or community
- E04008585
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00148026
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 006C · E01029064
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 006 · E02006052
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 BA4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.4 km
Bowlish Infant School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Shepton Mallet Community Infants' School & Nursery
Community school
- 1.9 km
St Paul's Church of England VC Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 212
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 123
- Public order 26
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Criminal damage and arson 14
- Vehicle crime 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA4 4 residents
- 5,367
Age bands in BA4 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.8%
877 residents
509 residents
1,214 residents
1,598 residents
1,171 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
WEST SHEPTON, SHEPTON MALLET, BA4 5UH
ODS code L85053
2.0 km
PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
CANNARDS GRAVE ROAD, SHEPTON MALLET, BA4 5RT
ODS code L85043
2.2 km
OAKHILL SURGERY
PONDSMEAD, SHEPTON ROAD, OAKHILL, RADSTOCK, BA3 5HT
ODS code L85611
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Back Lane
BCT · Downside
- 0.7 miles
Back Lane
BCT · Downside
- 0.8 miles
St Peters Road
BCT · Bowlish
- 0.8 miles
St Peters Road
BCT · Bowlish
- 0.9 miles
Waterloo Road
BCT · Bowlish
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 006C, 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
18,731 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
212 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 123 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.