Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ansford Academy is the nearest published school at 506 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA7 7DF
Castle Cary · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Castle Cary
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton
- Postcode district
- BA7
- Postcode sector
- BA7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA7 7DF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA7
- Postcode sector
- BA7 7
- Latitude
- 51.091249
- Longitude
- -2.516303
- British National Grid easting
- 363,938
- British National Grid northing
- 132,565
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Castle Cary · E05014350
- Parish or community
- E04008673
- Westminster constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton · E14001247
- Output area
- E00148575
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 002C · E01029168
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 002 · E02006076
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 BA7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 2
- 506 m
Ansford Academy
Academy converter
- 524 m
Castle Cary Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 4.0 km
Ditcheat Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 235
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 119
- Public order 27
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Vehicle crime 17
- Burglary 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA7 7 residents
- 3,919
Age bands in BA7 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.4%
530 residents
384 residents
761 residents
1,166 residents
1,298 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
MILLBROOK SURGERY, CASTLE CARY
MILLBROOK GARDENS, CASTLE CARY, BA7 7EE
ODS code L85040
409 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Florida Fields
BCT · Ansford
- 0.1 miles
Florida Fields
BCT · Ansford
- 0.1 miles
Priory View
BCT · Ansford
- 0.1 miles
Priory View
BCT · Ansford
- 0.2 miles
Town Hall
BCT · Ansford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 002C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,771 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
235 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 119 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.