Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Locking Primary School is the nearest published school at 605 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS24 8SZ
Hutton & Locking · North Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 8SZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS24
- Postcode sector
- BS24 8
- Latitude
- 51.334582
- Longitude
- -2.918638
- British National Grid easting
- 336,100
- British National Grid northing
- 159,900
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
- E00074620
- Lower layer super output area
- North Somerset 023D · E01014770
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 605 m
Locking Primary School
Academy converter
- 783 m
Parklands Educate Together Primary
Free schools
- 1.3 km
Winterstoke Hundred Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 531
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 233
- Anti social behaviour 69
- Public order 56
- Criminal damage and arson 44
- Other theft 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BS24 8 residents
- 5,100
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
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
STAFFORD MEDICAL GROUP
LOCKING CASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE, HIGHLANDS LANE, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS24 7DX
ODS code L81066
2.0 km
THE CEDARS SURGERY
87 NEW BRISTOL ROAD, WORLE, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS22 6AJ
ODS code L81643
2.6 km
THE MILTON SURGERY
232-234 MILTON ROAD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS22 8AG
ODS code L81058
2.9 km
168 MEDICAL GROUP
168 LOCKING ROAD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS23 3HQ
ODS code L81051
3.0 km
TUDOR LODGE SURGERY
3 NITHSDALE ROAD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS23 4JP
ODS code L81044
4.0 km
PIER HEALTH GROUP LTD
22 GRAHAM ROAD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS23 1YA
ODS code L81016
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Beechwood Avenue
BCT · Locking
- 0.1 miles
Beechwood Avenue
BCT · Locking
- 0.1 miles
South Lawn
BCT · Locking
- 0.1 miles
South Lawn
BCT · Locking
- 0.2 miles
Locking Farm Industrial Estate
BCT · Locking
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Somerset 023D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,035 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
531 published events cover 12 months, averaging 44.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 233 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.