Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 4 secondary schools. North Town Academy is the nearest published school at 467 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA1 1PN
Taunton East · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Taunton East
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington
- Postcode district
- TA1
- Postcode sector
- TA1 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA1 1PN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2024
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA1
- Postcode sector
- TA1 1
- Latitude
- 51.020738
- Longitude
- -3.102233
- British National Grid easting
- 322,787
- British National Grid northing
- 125,175
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Taunton East · E05014382
- Parish or community
- E04013217
- Westminster constituency
- Taunton and Wellington · E14001540
- Output area
- E00186515
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 011E · E01029299
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 011 · E02006105
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 TA1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 4
- 467 m
North Town Academy
Academy converter
- 470 m
St Andrew's Church School
Academy converter
- 703 m
St James Church School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,212
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,135
- Shoplifting 767
- Anti social behaviour 566
- Public order 558
- Criminal damage and arson 318
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA1 1 residents
- 6,752
Age bands in TA1 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.1%
995 residents
666 residents
2,184 residents
1,472 residents
1,176 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
COAL ORCHARD, TAUNTON, TA1 1JP
ODS code L85023
293 m
FRENCH WEIR HEALTH CENTRE
FRENCH WEIR AVENUE, TAUNTON, TA1 1NW
ODS code L85001
768 m
TAUNTON VALE HEALTHCARE
THE BLACKBROOK SURGERY, LISIEUX WAY, TAUNTON, TA1 2LB
ODS code L85014
1.6 km
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE
CROWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, VENTURE WAY, TAUNTON, TA2 8QY
ODS code L85006
1.8 km
LYNGFORD PARK
FLETCHER CLOSE, TAUNTON, TA2 8SQ
ODS code L85062
1.9 km
COLLEGE WAY SURGERY
COMEYTROWE CENTRE, TAUNTON, TA1 4TY
ODS code L85021
2.2 km
WARWICK HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOLWAY GREEN, UPPER HOLWAY ROAD, TAUNTON, TA1 2QA
ODS code L85052
2.3 km
CREECH
HYDE LANE, CREECH ST. MICHAEL, TAUNTON, TA3 5FA
ODS code L85609
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Royal Ashton
BCT · Taunton
- 0.1 miles
Flook House
BCT · Taunton
- 0.1 miles
Flook House
BCT · Taunton
- 0.2 miles
Taunton Rail Station Stop 1 South Side
BCT · Taunton
- 0.2 miles
Taunton Rail Station
RSE · Taunton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 011E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,754 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,212 published events cover 12 months, averaging 434.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,135 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.