Property market
The five-year median is £744,000 from 2 recorded sales in BA5 3AH. 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.
BA5 3AH
Mendip West · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wells
- Ward
- Mendip West
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Postcode district
- BA5
- Postcode sector
- BA5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA5 3AH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA5
- Postcode sector
- BA5 3
- Latitude
- 51.224841
- Longitude
- -2.650504
- British National Grid easting
- 354,671
- British National Grid northing
- 147,496
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Mendip West · E05014373
- Parish or community
- E04008582
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00148009
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 005E · E01035108
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 005 · E02006051
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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Upper Milton Farm, Upper Milton, Wells, BA5 3AH | 22 April 2026 | £1,015,000 |
| Lilliput, Old Bristol Road, Upper Milton, Wells, BA5 3AH | 17 November 2023 | £473,000 |
| Swallows End Barn, Upper Milton, Wells, BA5 3AH | 15 March 2021 | £747,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Stoberry Park School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
The Blue School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Wells Cathedral School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 136
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 84
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Other theft 6
- Public order 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 28
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- BA5 3 residents
- 4,660
16 female, 12 male
Age bands in BA5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.6%
585 residents
315 residents
785 residents
1,292 residents
1,252 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA5 3 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+
- 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
- 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
2
within 5 km
WELLS CITY PRACTICE
PRIORY MEDICAL CENTRE, PRIORY HEALTH PARK, GLASTONBURY ROAD, WELLS, BA5 1XJ
ODS code L85034
2.4 km
WELLS HEALTH CENTRE
PRIORY HEALTH PARK, GLASTONBURY ROAD, WELLS, BA5 1XJ
ODS code L85002
2.4 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
- 0.7 miles
Beryl Farm
BCT · Walcombe
- 0.7 miles
Beryl Farm
BCT · Walcombe
- 0.7 miles
College Road
BCT · Wells
- 0.7 miles
College Road
BCT · Wells
- 0.8 miles
Wells Blue School
BCT · Haybridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 005E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,141 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
11 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stoberry Park School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
136 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 84 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.