Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. 3 Dimensions is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA20 3BS
Chard North · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chard North
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil
- Postcode district
- TA20
- Postcode sector
- TA20 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA20 3BS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA20
- Postcode sector
- TA20 3
- Latitude
- 50.892724
- Longitude
- -2.959679
- British National Grid easting
- 332,600
- British National Grid northing
- 110,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Chard North · E05014351
- Parish or community
- E04008684
- Westminster constituency
- Yeovil · E14001603
- Output area
- E00148497
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 024A · E01029153
- 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
- 9
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.2 km
3 Dimensions
Other independent special school
- 1.5 km
The Redstart Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Avishayes Community Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 447
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 195
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Public order 33
- Shoplifting 31
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA20 3 residents
- 2,771
Age bands in TA20 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.6%
326 residents
176 residents
412 residents
935 residents
935 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
ARIEL HEALTHCARE
SUMMERFIELDS RD, SPRINGMEAD, CHARD, TA20 2EW
ODS code L85030
2.6 km
SUMMERVALE SURGERY
ILMINSTER MEDICAL CENTRE, CANAL WAY, ILMINSTER, TA19 9FE
ODS code L85054
4.6 km
THE MEADOWS SURGERY
CANAL WAY, ILMINSTER, TA19 9FE
ODS code L85061
4.6 km
CHURCH VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
BROADWAY ROAD, HORTON, ILMINSTER, TA19 9RX
ODS code L85624
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Hornsbury Mill
BCT · Hornsbury
- 0.5 miles
Hornsbury Mill
BCT · New England
- 0.6 miles
Thorndun Park Drive
BCT · Chard
- 0.6 miles
Thorndun Park Drive
BCT · Chard
- 0.7 miles
Englands Way
BCT · Chard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 024A, 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
16,101 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 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
447 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 195 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.