Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stoberry Park School is the nearest published school at 405 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA5 2XL
Wells · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wells
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Postcode district
- BA5
- Postcode sector
- BA5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA5 2XL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2006
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA5
- Postcode sector
- BA5 2
- Latitude
- 51.213231
- Longitude
- -2.635923
- British National Grid easting
- 355,678
- British National Grid northing
- 146,196
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Wells · E05014388
- Parish or community
- E04008595
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00148130
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 008E · E01029082
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 008 · E02006054
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 BA5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 405 m
Stoberry Park School
Academy converter
- 538 m
Wells Cathedral School
Other independent school
- 968 m
St Joseph and St Teresa Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 774
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 261
- Shoplifting 144
- Public order 94
- Anti social behaviour 87
- Criminal damage and arson 56
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA5 2 residents
- 7,655
Age bands in BA5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.4%
1,086 residents
800 residents
1,435 residents
2,123 residents
2,270 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
WELLS CITY PRACTICE
PRIORY MEDICAL CENTRE, PRIORY HEALTH PARK, GLASTONBURY ROAD, WELLS, BA5 1XJ
ODS code L85034
1.7 km
WELLS HEALTH CENTRE
PRIORY HEALTH PARK, GLASTONBURY ROAD, WELLS, BA5 1XJ
ODS code L85002
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St. Thomas Church
BCT · Wells
- 0.1 miles
Hawkers Lane
BCT · Wells
- 0.1 miles
Hawkers Lane
BCT · Wells
- 0.1 miles
St Thomas Church
BCT · Wells
- 0.2 miles
St Thomas Street
BCT · Wells
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 008E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,591 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
774 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 261 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.