Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Chard School is the nearest published school at 551 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA20 2TP
Chard South · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chard South
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil
- Postcode district
- TA20
- Postcode sector
- TA20 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA20 2TP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1984
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA20
- Postcode sector
- TA20 2
- Latitude
- 50.872990
- Longitude
- -2.953588
- British National Grid easting
- 333,000
- British National Grid northing
- 108,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Chard South · E05014352
- Parish or community
- E04008675
- Westminster constituency
- Yeovil · E14001603
- Output area
- E00148623
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 022D · E01029176
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 022 · E02006096
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
- 9
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 551 m
Chard School
Other independent school
- 623 m
Avishayes Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 891 m
Manor Court Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,767
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 757
- Shoplifting 184
- Public order 181
- Anti social behaviour 172
- Criminal damage and arson 127
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA20 2 residents
- 7,405
Age bands in TA20 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.1%
1,192 residents
720 residents
1,686 residents
1,975 residents
1,968 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
ARIEL HEALTHCARE
SUMMERFIELDS RD, SPRINGMEAD, CHARD, TA20 2EW
ODS code L85030
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Chard
- 0.2 miles
Tapstone Road
BCT · Chard
- 0.2 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Chard
- 0.2 miles
Avishayes Road
BCT · Chard
- 0.2 miles
Avishayes Road
BCT · Chard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 022D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,598 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
1,767 published events cover 12 months, averaging 147.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 757 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.