Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. All Hallows School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA4 4RA
Mendip Central and East · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset
- Postcode district
- BA4
- Postcode sector
- BA4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA4 4RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2002
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA4
- Postcode sector
- BA4 4
- Latitude
- 51.188328
- Longitude
- -2.443851
- British National Grid easting
- 369,077
- British National Grid northing
- 143,328
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
- E04008551
- Westminster constituency
- Frome and East Somerset · E14001241
- Output area
- E00147796
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 010B · E01029021
- 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 BA4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.0 km
All Hallows School
Other independent school
- 3.9 km
Leigh On Mendip School
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- 4.4 km
St Aldhelms Church School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Other theft 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
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.
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Chapel Farm
BCT · Leighton
- 0.9 miles
Chapel Farm
BCT · Leighton
- 1.2 miles
Methodist Chapel
BCT · Dean
- 1.2 miles
Methodist Chapel
BCT · Dean
- 1.4 miles
The Stores
BCT · Cranmore
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 010B, 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
19,877 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.