Property market
The five-year median is £490,000 from 1 recorded sale in TA2 8AF. 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.
TA2 8AF
Rowbarton & Staplegrove · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Taunton
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington
- Postcode district
- TA2
- Postcode sector
- TA2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA2 8AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA2
- Postcode sector
- TA2 8
- Latitude
- 51.050351
- Longitude
- -3.116390
- British National Grid easting
- 321,844
- British National Grid northing
- 128,483
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Rowbarton & Staplegrove · E05014377
- Parish or community
- E04013215
- Westminster constituency
- Taunton and Wellington · E14001540
- Output area
- E00149156
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 007B · E01029278
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 007 · E02006100
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 TA2
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tasma, Nailsbourne, Taunton, TA2 8AF | 25 August 2021 | £490,000 |
| Larkrise, Nailsbourne, Taunton, TA2 8AF | 4 July 2017 | £575,000 |
| Field End, Nailsbourne, Taunton, TA2 8AF | 15 September 2015 | £675,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 962 m
King's College Prep
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
Kingston St Mary Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.8 km
Pyrland School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 37
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 15
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Burglary 5
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Drugs 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 36
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- TA2 8 residents
- 11,574
22 female, 14 male
Age bands in TA2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.9%
2,403 residents
1,148 residents
3,340 residents
3,153 residents
2,048 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TA2 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 26.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 26.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 26.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
5
within 5 km
LYNGFORD PARK
FLETCHER CLOSE, TAUNTON, TA2 8SQ
ODS code L85062
2.4 km
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE
CROWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, VENTURE WAY, TAUNTON, TA2 8QY
ODS code L85006
3.4 km
FRENCH WEIR HEALTH CENTRE
FRENCH WEIR AVENUE, TAUNTON, TA1 1NW
ODS code L85001
3.5 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
COAL ORCHARD, TAUNTON, TA1 1JP
ODS code L85023
3.7 km
TAUNTON VALE HEALTHCARE
THE BLACKBROOK SURGERY, LISIEUX WAY, TAUNTON, TA1 2LB
ODS code L85014
4.7 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Nailsborne Turn
BCT · Nailsbourne
- 0.2 miles
Nailsborne Turn
BCT · Nailsbourne
- 0.4 miles
Mill Cross
BCT · Nailsbourne
- 0.4 miles
Mill Cross
BCT · Nailsbourne
- 0.5 miles
Lower Marsh Farm
BCT · Nailsbourne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 007B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,175 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 1
- 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
31 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. King's College Prep is the nearest published school at 962 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
37 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 15 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.