Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Priddy Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA5 3AS
Mendip Hills · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wells
- Ward
- Mendip Hills
- 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 3AS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA5
- Postcode sector
- BA5 3
- Latitude
- 51.252777
- Longitude
- -2.647602
- British National Grid easting
- 354,901
- British National Grid northing
- 150,601
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Mendip Hills · E05014371
- Parish or community
- E04008548
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00147973
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 006B · E01029056
- 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 BA5
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Stockhill Cottages, Priddy, Wells, BA5 3AS | 29 November 2001 | £160,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.2 km
Priddy Primary School
Community school
- 4.3 km
Stoberry Park School
Academy converter
- 4.3 km
Horrington Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Burglary 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- BA5 3 residents
- 4,660
4 female, 6 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 0.2% 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
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Hunters Lodge
BCT · Priddy
- 0.3 miles
Hunters Lodge
BCT · Priddy
- 0.4 miles
The Beeches
BCT · Priddy
- 0.4 miles
The Beeches
BCT · Priddy
- 1.4 miles
The New Inn
BCT · Priddy
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 006B, 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
21,620 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.