Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Priddy Primary School is the nearest published school at 469 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA5 3BN
Mendip Hills · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 3BN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA5
- Postcode sector
- BA5 3
- Latitude
- 51.262463
- Longitude
- -2.682150
- British National Grid easting
- 352,500
- British National Grid northing
- 151,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Mendip Hills · E05014371
- Parish or community
- E04008578
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00148003
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 005B · E01029060
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 469 m
Priddy Primary School
Community school
- 3.7 km
St Lawrence's CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.9 km
Draycott & Rodney Stoke Church of England First School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 12
- Vehicle crime 2
- Burglary 1
- Other crime 1
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA5 3 residents
- 4,660
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
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mendip Heights Caravan Park
BCT · Priddy
- 0.1 miles
Mendip Heights Caravan Park
BCT · Priddy
- 0.5 miles
The New Inn
BCT · Priddy
- 0.5 miles
The New Inn
BCT · Priddy
- 0.8 miles
Harptree Lodge Kennels
BCT · Priddy
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 005B, 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
20,438 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.