Broadband in Bath and North East Somerset

The striking thing about this district's fibre map is its floor. BS39 and BS40, the lowest-ranked outward codes, both still exceed 80 per cent full fibre coverage, while BS41 reaches 98.3% and BS14 sits above 95 per cent. Few of the usual best-versus-worst contrasts apply when the worst is this high.

The rest of the numbers are solid rather than spectacular. Superfast covers 92.6% of postcodes, a few points under the national norm, and 72.9% can take a gigabit-capable service. Sub-10 Mbps postcodes account for 1.2% of the 5,774 in the dataset, spread across 9 outward codes. Taken together the figures point one way. Full fibre at 84.5%, against a UK average of roughly 69 per cent, is the district's strongest suit, and a household picking almost any postcode here can expect a fibre option on the list.

Most households here choose between fibre packages rather than hunting for one. With 84.5% of postcodes covered, upload-heavy work, large households and 4K streaming are realistic almost anywhere in the district. The 1.2% of postcodes below 10 Mbps are a genuine minority case. Buyers comparing postcodes within the area will find comparatively little variation, since even the weakest outward codes clear 80 per cent fibre coverage, which takes much of the risk out of choosing an address on connectivity grounds.