Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Bowlish Infant School is the nearest published school at 528 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA4 5WD
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 5WD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 April 2003
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA4
- Postcode sector
- BA4 5
- Latitude
- 51.188975
- Longitude
- -2.555442
- British National Grid easting
- 361,279
- British National Grid northing
- 143,453
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
- E00148044
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 009D · E01029066
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 009 · E02006055
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
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 528 m
Bowlish Infant School
Community school
- 678 m
St Paul's Church of England VC Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
- 826 m
Shepton Mallet Community Infants' School & Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 855
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 435
- Anti social behaviour 102
- Public order 89
- Criminal damage and arson 62
- Shoplifting 45
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
WEST SHEPTON, SHEPTON MALLET, BA4 5UH
ODS code L85053
244 m
PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
CANNARDS GRAVE ROAD, SHEPTON MALLET, BA4 5RT
ODS code L85043
692 m
OAKHILL SURGERY
PONDSMEAD, SHEPTON ROAD, OAKHILL, RADSTOCK, BA3 5HT
ODS code L85611
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
West Shepton Road
BCT · West Shepton
- 0.1 miles
West Shepton Road
BCT · West Shepton
- 0.1 miles
West Lodge
BCT · West Shepton
- 0.1 miles
Red Cross Centre
BCT · West Shepton
- 0.2 miles
Duchy Road
BCT · Kent Lane
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 009D, 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
14,508 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
855 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 435 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.