Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Whitstone is the nearest published school at 228 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA4 5PG
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA4 5PG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA4
- Postcode sector
- BA4 5
- Latitude
- 51.188722
- Longitude
- -2.538539
- British National Grid easting
- 362,460
- British National Grid northing
- 143,416
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
- E00148022
- 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
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 228 m
Whitstone
Academy converter
- 509 m
St Paul's Church of England VC Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
- 685 m
Shepton Mallet Community Infants' School & Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 899
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 445
- Anti social behaviour 103
- Public order 94
- Criminal damage and arson 66
- Shoplifting 55
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA4 5 residents
- 8,365
Age bands in BA4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.4%
1,413 residents
814 residents
2,240 residents
2,281 residents
1,626 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
3
within 5 km
PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
CANNARDS GRAVE ROAD, SHEPTON MALLET, BA4 5RT
ODS code L85043
646 m
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
WEST SHEPTON, SHEPTON MALLET, BA4 5UH
ODS code L85053
1.4 km
OAKHILL SURGERY
PONDSMEAD, SHEPTON ROAD, OAKHILL, RADSTOCK, BA3 5HT
ODS code L85611
4.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Collett Avenue
BCT · Shepton Mallet
- 0.0 miles
Collett Avenue
BCT · Shepton Mallet
- 0.1 miles
Charlton Inn
BCT · Shepton Mallet
- 0.1 miles
Charlton Inn
BCT · Shepton Mallet
- 0.2 miles
Charlton Inn Car Park
BCT · Shepton Mallet
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.
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
899 published events cover 12 months, averaging 74.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 445 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.