Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. Fairlands Middle School is the nearest published school at 744 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS27 3QB
Cheddar · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Cheddar
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Postcode district
- BS27
- Postcode sector
- BS27 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS27 3QB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS27
- Postcode sector
- BS27 3
- Latitude
- 51.281702
- Longitude
- -2.769899
- British National Grid easting
- 346,400
- British National Grid northing
- 153,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Cheddar · E05014353
- Parish or community
- E04008617
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00148352
- Lower layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 001B · E01029126
- Middle layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 001 · E02006061
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 BS27
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 2
- 744 m
Fairlands Middle School
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- 917 m
Cheddar First School
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- 1.0 km
The Kings of Wessex Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 414
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 162
- Anti social behaviour 88
- Criminal damage and arson 36
- Other theft 30
- Public order 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BS27 3 residents
- 7,499
Age bands in BS27 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
1,154 residents
721 residents
1,454 residents
2,197 residents
2,069 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
CHEDDAR MEDICAL CENTRE
ROYNON WAY, CHEDDAR, BS27 3NZ
ODS code L85011
876 m
AXBRIDGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, HOULGATE WAY, AXBRIDGE, BS26 2BJ
ODS code L85055
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Cox's Mill Hotel
BCT · Cheddar
- 0.0 miles
Cox's Cave
BCT · Cheddar
- 0.2 miles
Gough's Cave
BCT · Cheddar
- 0.3 miles
Tweentown
BCT · Cheddar
- 0.3 miles
Tweentown
BCT · Cheddar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sedgemoor 001B, 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
21,842 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
414 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 162 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.