Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Winsham Primary School is the nearest published school at 155 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA20 1PJ
Ilminster · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA20 1PJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 October 2019
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA20
- Postcode sector
- TA20 1
- Latitude
- 50.854229
- Longitude
- -2.889032
- British National Grid easting
- 337,517
- British National Grid northing
- 106,457
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Ilminster · E05014366
- Parish or community
- E04008771
- Westminster constituency
- Yeovil · E14001603
- Output area
- E00148905
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 024D · E01029230
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 024 · E02006098
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 TA20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 155 m
Winsham Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.1 km
Thorncombe, St Mary's Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 4.8 km
Tatworth Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Burglary 3
- Other theft 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA20 1 residents
- 9,165
Age bands in TA20 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
1,565 residents
935 residents
2,093 residents
2,343 residents
2,203 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.
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Winsham Post Office
BCT · Winsham
- 0.1 miles
Church Street School
BCT · Winsham
- 0.1 miles
Davies Close
BCT · Winsham
- 0.1 miles
Davies Close
BCT · Winsham
- 0.9 miles
Maudlin Cross
BCT · Maudlin
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 024D, 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
13,990 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.