Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Abbot's Way School is the nearest published school at 210 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA6 9RL
Mendip West · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Glastonbury
- Ward
- Mendip West
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Postcode district
- BA6
- Postcode sector
- BA6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA6 9RL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA6
- Postcode sector
- BA6 9
- Latitude
- 51.170641
- Longitude
- -2.784525
- British National Grid easting
- 345,248
- British National Grid northing
- 141,560
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Mendip West · E05014373
- Parish or community
- E04008571
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00147964
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 012B · E01029054
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 012 · E02006058
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 BA6
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Farriers Close, Meare, Glastonbury, BA6 9RL | 20 August 2020 | £362,500 |
| 1, Farriers Close, Meare, Glastonbury, BA6 9RL | 21 February 2020 | £247,625 |
| 2, Farriers Close, Meare, Glastonbury, BA6 9RL | 21 February 2020 | £247,625 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 210 m
Abbot's Way School
Other independent special school
- 297 m
Meare Village Primary School
Community school
- 4.6 km
Ashcott Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 34
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Burglary 5
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Public order 3
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- BA6 9 residents
- 6,686
1 female, 4 male
Age bands in BA6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
994 residents
560 residents
1,546 residents
2,167 residents
1,558 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA6 9 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+
- 100%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Meare
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Meare
- 0.1 miles
St Marys Church
BCT · Meare
- 0.1 miles
Millbatch
BCT · Meare
- 0.1 miles
Millbatch
BCT · Meare
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 012B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,794 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
34 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.