Property market
The five-year median is £575,200 from 6 recorded sales in BA4 6RE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Somerset is £281,571 in June 2026, up 4.5% year on year.
BA4 6RE
Mendip South · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shepton Mallet
- Ward
- Mendip South
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset
- Postcode district
- BA4
- Postcode sector
- BA4 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA4 6RE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA4
- Postcode sector
- BA4 6
- Latitude
- 51.126357
- Longitude
- -2.541358
- British National Grid easting
- 362,212
- British National Grid northing
- 136,482
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Mendip South · E05014372
- Parish or community
- E04008553
- Westminster constituency
- Frome and East Somerset · E14001241
- Output area
- E00148090
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 013C · E01029077
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 013 · E02006059
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
Property
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Pathways, Ditcheat, Shepton Mallet, BA4 6RE | 8 January 2026 | £580,400 |
| Pathways, Ditcheat, Shepton Mallet, BA4 6RE | 17 December 2024 | £510,000 |
| The Chimes, Ditcheat, Shepton Mallet, BA4 6RE | 20 May 2024 | £525,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 345 m
Ditcheat Primary School
Community school
- 3.5 km
The Mendip School
Free schools special
- 3.9 km
Evercreech Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 4
- Public order 2
- Vehicle crime 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- BA4 6 residents
- 4,736
18 female, 13 male
Age bands in BA4 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
711 residents
402 residents
907 residents
1,471 residents
1,212 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA4 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
1
within 5 km
MILLBROOK SURGERY, CASTLE CARY
MILLBROOK GARDENS, CASTLE CARY, BA7 7EE
ODS code L85040
4.6 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Manor Farm
BCT · Ditcheat
- 0.2 miles
Manor Farm
BCT · Ditcheat
- 0.2 miles
Longmans Lea
BCT · Ditcheat
- 0.2 miles
Longmans Lea
BCT · Ditcheat
- 0.4 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Ditcheat
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 013C, 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
17,007 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
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
Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ditcheat Primary School is the nearest published school at 345 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.