Property market
The five-year median is £270,000 from 2 recorded sales in TA2 8PH. 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 8PH
Monkton & North Curry · 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 8PH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA2
- Postcode sector
- TA2 8
- Latitude
- 51.034661
- Longitude
- -3.066081
- British National Grid easting
- 325,345
- British National Grid northing
- 126,686
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Monkton & North Curry · E05014375
- Parish or community
- E04013219
- Westminster constituency
- Taunton and Wellington · E14001540
- Output area
- E00149378
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 008E · E01035127
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 008 · E02006104
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
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Sylvan Way, Monkton Heathfield, Taunton, TA2 8PH | 26 November 2024 | £280,000 |
| 12, Sylvan Way, Monkton Heathfield, Taunton, TA2 8PH | 30 September 2021 | £260,000 |
| 13, Sylvan Way, Monkton Heathfield, Taunton, TA2 8PH | 30 June 2021 | £275,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 249 m
Monkton Wood Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 697 m
West Monkton Church of England School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Nerrols Primary School and Nursery
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,006
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 382
- Shoplifting 176
- Anti social behaviour 101
- Public order 80
- Criminal damage and arson 63
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 29
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- TA2 8 residents
- 11,574
14 female, 15 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
7
within 5 km
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE
CROWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, VENTURE WAY, TAUNTON, TA2 8QY
ODS code L85006
1.2 km
CREECH
HYDE LANE, CREECH ST. MICHAEL, TAUNTON, TA3 5FA
ODS code L85609
1.6 km
LYNGFORD PARK
FLETCHER CLOSE, TAUNTON, TA2 8SQ
ODS code L85062
1.8 km
TAUNTON VALE HEALTHCARE
THE BLACKBROOK SURGERY, LISIEUX WAY, TAUNTON, TA1 2LB
ODS code L85014
2.4 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
COAL ORCHARD, TAUNTON, TA1 1JP
ODS code L85023
3.1 km
WARWICK HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOLWAY GREEN, UPPER HOLWAY ROAD, TAUNTON, TA1 2QA
ODS code L85052
3.2 km
FRENCH WEIR HEALTH CENTRE
FRENCH WEIR AVENUE, TAUNTON, TA1 1NW
ODS code L85001
3.7 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
- 0.0 miles
Milton Hill
BCT · Monkton Heathfield
- 0.0 miles
Milton Hill
BCT · Monkton Heathfield
- 0.1 miles
Merry Monk
BCT · Monkton Heathfield
- 0.1 miles
Heathfield School
BCT · Monkton Heathfield
- 0.2 miles
Merry Monk
BCT · Monkton Heathfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 008E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,033 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 0
- 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
Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Monkton Wood Academy is the nearest published school at 249 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,006 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 382 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.