Property market
The five-year median is £482,500 from 6 recorded sales in TA1 5AP. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Somerset is £281,571 in June 2026, up 4.5% year on year.
TA1 5AP
Bishop's Hull & Taunton West · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Taunton
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington
- Postcode district
- TA1
- Postcode sector
- TA1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA1 5AP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA1
- Postcode sector
- TA1 5
- Latitude
- 51.015082
- Longitude
- -3.115457
- British National Grid easting
- 321,850
- British National Grid northing
- 124,560
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Bishop's Hull & Taunton West · E05014339
- Parish or community
- E04013217
- Westminster constituency
- Taunton and Wellington · E14001540
- Output area
- E00149287
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 016D · E01029302
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 016 · E02006109
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
Property
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 60, Flat 3, Wellington Road, Taunton, TA1 5AP | 30 August 2024 | £185,000 |
| 58, Wellington Road, Taunton, TA1 5AP | 20 July 2023 | £690,000 |
| Quantock View, Wellington Road, Taunton, TA1 5AP | 1 February 2023 | £465,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 273 m
The Castle School
Academy converter
- 421 m
Parkfield Primary School
Community school
- 662 m
North Town Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,782
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,469
- Shoplifting 563
- Public order 456
- Anti social behaviour 425
- Criminal damage and arson 238
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 68
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- TA1 5 residents
- 7,325
32 female, 36 male
Age bands in TA1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.6%
1,185 residents
692 residents
1,527 residents
1,862 residents
1,809 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TA1 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 86.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 86.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 86.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 86.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 86.7%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
7
within 5 km
FRENCH WEIR HEALTH CENTRE
FRENCH WEIR AVENUE, TAUNTON, TA1 1NW
ODS code L85001
491 m
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
COAL ORCHARD, TAUNTON, TA1 1JP
ODS code L85023
1.0 km
COLLEGE WAY SURGERY
COMEYTROWE CENTRE, TAUNTON, TA1 4TY
ODS code L85021
1.2 km
TAUNTON VALE HEALTHCARE
THE BLACKBROOK SURGERY, LISIEUX WAY, TAUNTON, TA1 2LB
ODS code L85014
2.4 km
WARWICK HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOLWAY GREEN, UPPER HOLWAY ROAD, TAUNTON, TA1 2QA
ODS code L85052
2.8 km
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE
CROWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, VENTURE WAY, TAUNTON, TA2 8QY
ODS code L85006
2.9 km
LYNGFORD PARK
FLETCHER CLOSE, TAUNTON, TA2 8SQ
ODS code L85062
2.9 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Aylands Road
BCT · Taunton
- 0.1 miles
Somerset College
BCT · Taunton
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Taunton
- 0.1 miles
Somerset College 1
BCT · Taunton
- 0.2 miles
Tesco Superstore
BCT · Taunton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 016D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,483 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 4
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. The Castle School is the nearest published school at 273 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,782 published events cover 12 months, averaging 315.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,469 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.