Property market
The five-year median is £580,000 from 1 recorded sale in TA20 4HE. 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.
TA20 4HE
Chard South · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA20 4HE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA20
- Postcode sector
- TA20 4
- Latitude
- 50.855480
- Longitude
- -2.929221
- British National Grid easting
- 334,690
- British National Grid northing
- 106,631
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Chard South · E05014352
- Parish or community
- E04008760
- Westminster constituency
- Yeovil · E14001603
- Output area
- E00148844
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 024B · E01029219
- 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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Storeyville, Whitegate, Forton, Chard, TA20 4HE | 24 October 2022 | £580,000 |
| Storeyville, Whitegate, Forton, Chard, TA20 4HE | 13 August 2014 | £385,000 |
| Newlands, Whitegate, Forton, Chard, TA20 4HE | 31 January 2002 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.3 km
Tatworth Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Avishayes Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Winsham Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Other theft 3
- Public order 2
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- TA20 4 residents
- 2,237
13 female, 8 male
Age bands in TA20 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.1%
262 residents
190 residents
337 residents
735 residents
753 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TA20 4 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
1
within 5 km
ARIEL HEALTHCARE
SUMMERFIELDS RD, SPRINGMEAD, CHARD, TA20 2EW
ODS code L85030
3.1 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Three Ways
BCT · Forton
- 0.7 miles
Forton Lane
BCT · Forton
- 0.9 miles
Station Road
BCT · Perry Street
- 0.9 miles
Station Road
BCT · Perry Street
- 0.9 miles
Lower Coombses
BCT · Perry Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 024B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,897 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 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
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Tatworth Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.