Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Horsington Church School is the nearest published school at 391 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA8 0DY
Blackmoor Vale · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blackmoor Vale
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton
- Postcode district
- BA8
- Postcode sector
- BA8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA8 0DY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2024
- Terminated
- 1 July 2025
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA8
- Postcode sector
- BA8 0
- Latitude
- 51.016573
- Longitude
- -2.435708
- British National Grid easting
- 369,533
- British National Grid northing
- 124,224
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Blackmoor Vale · E05014341
- Parish or community
- E04008707
- Westminster constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton · E14001247
- Output area
- E00148518
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 005A · E01029155
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 005 · E02006079
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 BA8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 391 m
Horsington Church School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Marchant Holliday School
Other independent special school
- 2.1 km
Abbas and Templecombe Church School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 5
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Other theft 3
- Vehicle crime 2
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BA8 0 residents
- 4,387
Age bands in BA8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
720 residents
353 residents
885 residents
1,232 residents
1,190 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
WINCANTON HEALTH CENTRE
DYKES WAY, WINCANTON, BA9 9FQ
ODS code L85027
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
White Horse Inn
BCT · South Cheriton
- 0.3 miles
White Horse Inn
BCT · South Cheriton
- 0.4 miles
Mill Cottage
BCT · Horsington
- 0.4 miles
Mill Cottage
BCT · Horsington
- 0.8 miles
North Cheriton Cemetery
BCT · South Cheriton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 005A, 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
19,561 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
16 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.