Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. West Somerset College is the nearest published school at 318 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA24 6BJ
Dunster · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dunster
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead
- Postcode district
- TA24
- Postcode sector
- TA24 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA24 6BJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA24
- Postcode sector
- TA24 6
- Latitude
- 51.196725
- Longitude
- -3.467158
- British National Grid easting
- 297,583
- British National Grid northing
- 145,191
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Dunster · E05014359
- Parish or community
- E04008846
- Westminster constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead · E14001548
- Output area
- E00149403
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 001A · E01029324
- 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
- 318 m
West Somerset College
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- 528 m
Minehead Middle School
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- 972 m
Minehead First School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,095
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 481
- Shoplifting 160
- Anti social behaviour 118
- Public order 99
- Criminal damage and arson 71
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA24 6 residents
- 6,234
Age bands in TA24 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.7%
843 residents
542 residents
1,168 residents
1,711 residents
2,072 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
1.1 km
DUNSTER & PORLOCK SURGERIES
WEST STREET, DUNSTER, MINEHEAD, TA24 6SN
ODS code L85065
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Alcombe Bus Shelter
BCT · Minehead
- 0.1 miles
Alcombe Bus Shelter
BCT · Minehead
- 0.2 miles
Elm Grove
BCT · Minehead
- 0.2 miles
Alcombe Books
BCT · Alcombe
- 0.2 miles
WSCC
BCT · Minehead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 001A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,665 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,095 published events cover 12 months, averaging 91.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 481 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.