BA2
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Bath, in Bath and North East Somerset.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an BA2 postcode. How census figures are added up
Gigabit coverage by postcode district
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In BA2, 80.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How BA2 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is BA2 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in BA2 at a rate of 72.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 85.4 per 1,000 people across the BA postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 467 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in BA2.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,148), other crime (1,042) and shoplifting (889).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in BA2 was 69.6 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in BA2, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so BA2 has no single figure. Of its 51 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 12 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in BA2
MPs for BA2
- Wera HobhouseLiberal DemocratMP for Bath64% of BA2’s postcodes
- Anna SabineLiberal DemocratMP for Frome and East Somerset25% of BA2’s postcodes
- Dan NorrisIndependentMP for North East Somerset and Hanham8.9% of BA2’s postcodes
- Brian MathewLiberal DemocratMP for Melksham and Devizes2.3% of BA2’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in BA210
Postcode sectors in BA210
Council1
Towns in BA21
Postcode districts next to BA27
Nearest rail stations2
More in the BA postcode area2
BA2 in brief
BA2 is a postcode district covering Bath, in Bath and North East Somerset.
About 83,635 people lived in BA2 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £435,000 in 2025 across 1,026 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 72.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in BA2 was £435,000 in 2025.
BA2 had 79,902 usual residents at the census.
In BA2, 80.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In BA2, 1.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.