Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Wellington School is the nearest published school at 315 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA21 8SR
Blackdown & Neroche · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blackdown & Neroche
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington
- Postcode district
- TA21
- Postcode sector
- TA21 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA21 8SR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2003
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA21
- Postcode sector
- TA21 8
- Latitude
- 50.977908
- Longitude
- -3.223013
- British National Grid easting
- 314,237
- British National Grid northing
- 120,546
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Blackdown & Neroche · E05014340
- Parish or community
- E04008819
- Westminster constituency
- Taunton and Wellington · E14001540
- Output area
- E00149334
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 017C · E01029310
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 017 · E02006111
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
- 315 m
Wellington School
Other independent school
- 375 m
St John's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 722 m
Wellesley Park Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,234
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 645
- Anti social behaviour 176
- Public order 157
- Criminal damage and arson 75
- 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 straight-line
WELLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
MANTLE STREET, WELLINGTON, TA21 8BD
ODS code L85012
762 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Laburnum Road
BCT · Wellington
- 0.2 miles
Wellington School
BCT · Wellington
- 0.2 miles
Wellington School
BCT · Wellington
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Wellington
- 0.2 miles
Beech Hill Stores
BCT · Wellington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 017C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,168 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,234 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 645 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.