BA5 3EP

Mendip Hills · Somerset · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Mendip Hills
Local authority: Somerset
Constituency: Wells and Mendip Hills
Postcode district: BA5
Postcode sector: BA5 3

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
BA5 3EZ	750 m
BA5 3EU	862 m
BA5 3ER	890 m
BA5 3HN	964 m
BA5 3ET	1.0 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: BA5 3EP
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: BA
Postcode district: BA5
Postcode sector: BA5 3
Latitude: 51.243611
Longitude: -2.595827
British National Grid easting: 358,506
British National Grid northing: 149,551

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South West · E12000009
Local authority district: Somerset · E06000066
Electoral ward: Mendip Hills · E05014371
Parish or community: E04008582
Westminster constituency: Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
Output area: E00147977
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

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Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 4
Primary: 3
Secondary: 0

Horrington Primary School

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2.6 km
Chewton Mendip Church of England VA Primary School

Voluntary aided school
3.8 km
Stoberry Park School

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4.5 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 6
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 4
Public order 1
Vehicle crime 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%

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

Mendip Nature Research Centre

BCT · Green Ore
0.3 miles
Mendip Nature Research Centre

BCT · Green Ore
0.3 miles
Green Ore Crossroads

BCT · Green Ore
0.6 miles
Green Ore Crossroads

BCT · Green Ore
0.6 miles
The Ploughboy Inn

BCT · Green Ore
0.6 miles

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

Schools

4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Horrington Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.