Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. Melksham House School is the nearest published school at 202 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN12 9AG
Melksham South · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Melksham South
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes
- Postcode district
- SN12
- Postcode sector
- SN12 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN12 9AG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 2009
- Terminated
- 1 September 2011
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN12
- Postcode sector
- SN12 9
- Latitude
- 51.372756
- Longitude
- -2.140045
- British National Grid easting
- 390,348
- British National Grid northing
- 163,754
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Melksham South · E05016254
- Parish or community
- E04013041
- Westminster constituency
- Melksham and Devizes · E14001356
- Output area
- E00163556
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 022C · E01032067
- Middle layer super output area
- Wiltshire 022 · E02006680
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 SN12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 202 m
Melksham House School
Other independent special school
- 390 m
The Manor CofE VC Primary School
Academy converter
- 447 m
Aloeric Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,271
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 522
- Anti social behaviour 258
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Public order 97
- Shoplifting 77
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
GIFFORDS PRIMARY CARE CTR
SPA ROAD, MELKSHAM, SN12 7EA
ODS code J83011
843 m
SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
SNOWBERRY LANE, MELKSHAM, SN12 6UN
ODS code J83046
1.2 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Market Place
BCT · Melksham
- 0.1 miles
Market Place
BCT · Melksham
- 0.1 miles
Buds Bar
BCT · Melksham
- 0.1 miles
Bud's Bar
BCT · Melksham
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury
BCT · Melksham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 022C, 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
22,839 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,271 published events cover 12 months, averaging 105.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 522 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.