Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Merriott Primary School is the nearest published school at 709 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA18 7NG
South Petherton & Islemoor · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA18 7NG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA18
- Postcode sector
- TA18 7
- Latitude
- 50.905575
- Longitude
- -2.793227
- British National Grid easting
- 344,322
- British National Grid northing
- 112,090
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- South Petherton & Islemoor · E05014380
- Parish or community
- E04008730
- Westminster constituency
- Yeovil · E14001603
- Output area
- E00148694
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 017B · E01029190
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 017 · E02006091
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 TA18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 709 m
Merriott Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Wadham School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.1 km
Ashlands Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 83
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 31
- Other theft 17
- Criminal damage and arson 15
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Public order 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA18 7 residents
- 4,109
Age bands in TA18 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.4%
552 residents
339 residents
763 residents
1,207 residents
1,370 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
SYMPHONY SOUTH HEALTHCARE
MIDDLE PATH, CREWKERNE, TA18 8BX
ODS code L85004
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Boadway Stores
BCT · Merriott
- 0.1 miles
Broadway Stores
BCT · Merriott
- 0.1 miles
The Old Chapel
BCT · Merriottsford
- 0.1 miles
Langdons Cottage
BCT · Merriottsford
- 0.5 miles
The Church
BCT · Merriott
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 017B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,830 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
83 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 31 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.