Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. Minehead Middle School is the nearest published school at 602 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA24 5AR
Minehead · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Minehead
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead
- Postcode district
- TA24
- Postcode sector
- TA24 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA24 5AR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA24
- Postcode sector
- TA24 5
- Latitude
- 51.205707
- Longitude
- -3.469433
- British National Grid easting
- 297,444
- British National Grid northing
- 146,193
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Minehead · E05014374
- Parish or community
- E04008846
- Westminster constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead · E14001548
- Output area
- E00166050
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 001C · E01029330
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 001 · E02006113
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 TA24
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 2
- 602 m
Minehead Middle School
Academy converter
- 671 m
Minehead First School
Academy converter
- 729 m
Aurora Foxes
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,138
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 498
- Shoplifting 161
- Anti social behaviour 130
- Public order 104
- Criminal damage and arson 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA24 5 residents
- 5,547
Age bands in TA24 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 38.2%
587 residents
519 residents
987 residents
1,520 residents
2,235 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
MINEHEAD MEDICAL CENTRE
2 IRNHAM ROAD, MINEHEAD, TA24 5DL
ODS code L85019
532 m
DUNSTER & PORLOCK SURGERIES
WEST STREET, DUNSTER, MINEHEAD, TA24 6SN
ODS code L85065
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Minehead (West Somerset Railway)
MET · Minehead
- 0.1 miles
Minehead (West Somerset Railway)
TMU · Minehead
- 0.1 miles
Minehead Railway Station
BCT · Minehead
- 0.1 miles
Minehead Railway Station
BCT · Minehead
- 0.1 miles
Glenmore Road
BCT · Minehead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 001C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,348 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
1,138 published events cover 12 months, averaging 94.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 498 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.