Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 5 secondary schools. Locking Primary School is the nearest published school at 137 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS24 8BP
Hutton & Locking · North Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Weston-Super-Mare
- Ward
- Hutton & Locking
- Local authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare
- Postcode district
- BS24
- Postcode sector
- BS24 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS24 8BP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS24
- Postcode sector
- BS24 8
- Latitude
- 51.333307
- Longitude
- -2.910301
- British National Grid easting
- 336,679
- British National Grid northing
- 159,751
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Somerset · E06000024
- Electoral ward
- Hutton & Locking · E05010286
- Parish or community
- E04012103
- Westminster constituency
- Weston-super-Mare · E14001581
- Output area
- E00189509
- Lower layer super output area
- North Somerset 023H · E01035214
- Middle layer super output area
- North Somerset 023 · E02003087
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 BS24
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Birch Close, Locking, Weston-Super-Mare, BS24 8BP | 24 March 2021 | £220,000 |
| 6, Birch Close, Locking, Weston-Super-Mare, BS24 8BP | 10 March 2017 | £197,000 |
| 2, Birch Close, Locking, Weston-Super-Mare, BS24 8BP | 18 September 2015 | £176,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 5
- 137 m
Locking Primary School
Academy converter
- 364 m
Parklands Educate Together Primary
Free schools
- 1.8 km
Hutton Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 431
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 198
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Public order 44
- Criminal damage and arson 35
- Other theft 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- BS24 8 residents
- 5,100
10 female, 7 male
Age bands in BS24 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
1,014 residents
407 residents
1,464 residents
988 residents
885 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BS24 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
STAFFORD MEDICAL GROUP
LOCKING CASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE, HIGHLANDS LANE, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS24 7DX
ODS code L81066
2.2 km
THE CEDARS SURGERY
87 NEW BRISTOL ROAD, WORLE, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS22 6AJ
ODS code L81643
2.9 km
THE MILTON SURGERY
232-234 MILTON ROAD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS22 8AG
ODS code L81058
3.4 km
168 MEDICAL GROUP
168 LOCKING ROAD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS23 3HQ
ODS code L81051
3.6 km
TUDOR LODGE SURGERY
3 NITHSDALE ROAD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS23 4JP
ODS code L81044
4.5 km
PIER HEALTH GROUP LTD
22 GRAHAM ROAD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS23 1YA
ODS code L81016
4.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Birch Close
BCT · Locking
- 0.1 miles
Fairacre Close
BCT · Locking
- 0.1 miles
Apprentice Way
BCT · Locking
- 0.2 miles
The Green
BCT · Locking
- 0.2 miles
Apprentice Way
BCT · Locking
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Somerset 023H, 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
21,016 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
431 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 198 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.