Mere

What is it like to live in Mere?

Homes sold for a typical £365,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. At 27 of the 110 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 34 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 10 of its 110 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Gillingham (Dorset), 6.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Mere?

Homes in Mere sold for a typical £365,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 43 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £345,000 from 46 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £498,250 20 sales
• Semi-detached £262,500 7 sales
• Terraced £287,500 14 sales
• Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole BA12 district, Mere's main postcode district: a typical £300,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Mere: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Mere?

4 of the 110 postcodes now in use in Mere came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 11 of the 46 homes sold in Mere were newly built (24%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BA12 district, 16%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Mere?

Ofcom reports on 110 of the 110 postcodes in Mere. At 27 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Mere at risk of flooding?

10 of the 110 postcodes in Mere have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 34 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Mere?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Mere. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Mere?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Mere is Gillingham (Dorset) Rail Station, 6.2 km away in a straight line.

• Gillingham (Dorset) Rail Station Railway station 6.2 kmDrive
• Bruton Rail Station Railway station 12.8 kmDrive
• Tisbury Rail Station Railway station 13.5 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Mere?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Mere. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Mere Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01747 860001 100 mWalk

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Mere safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 180 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Mere over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 3, drugs 1, robbery 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Mere?

Council

Wiltshire

Parliamentary constituency

South West Wiltshire

Police force area

Wiltshire

Region

South West

Country

England

MP

Dr Andrew Murrison (Conservative)

All 110 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026. See all our data sources