Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Wellington School is the nearest published school at 339 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA21 8FU
Wellington · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wellington
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington
- Postcode district
- TA21
- Postcode sector
- TA21 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA21 8FU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA21
- Postcode sector
- TA21 8
- Latitude
- 50.978415
- Longitude
- -3.226958
- British National Grid easting
- 313,961
- British National Grid northing
- 120,607
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Wellington · E05014387
- Parish or community
- E04008819
- Westminster constituency
- Taunton and Wellington · E14001540
- Output area
- E00149332
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 018F · E01035130
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 018 · E02006110
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 TA21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 339 m
Wellington School
Other independent school
- 465 m
St John's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 467 m
Beech Grove Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,311
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 692
- Anti social behaviour 191
- Public order 164
- Criminal damage and arson 81
- Shoplifting 51
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA21 8 residents
- 8,369
Age bands in TA21 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
1,291 residents
874 residents
1,830 residents
2,190 residents
2,059 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
WELLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
MANTLE STREET, WELLINGTON, TA21 8BD
ODS code L85012
541 m
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
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Wellington
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Wellington
- 0.1 miles
Longforth Car Park
BCT · Wellington
- 0.1 miles
Three Cups
BCT · Wellington
- 0.1 miles
Luson Surgery
BCT · Wellington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 018F, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,130 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,311 published events cover 12 months, averaging 109.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 692 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.