Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. Dunster First School is the nearest published school at 468 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA24 6FD
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 6FD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2021
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA24
- Postcode sector
- TA24 6
- Latitude
- 51.186026
- Longitude
- -3.442349
- British National Grid easting
- 299,293
- British National Grid northing
- 143,967
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Dunster · E05014359
- Parish or community
- E04008835
- Westminster constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead · E14001548
- Output area
- E00149438
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 005A · E01029325
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 005 · E02006117
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
- 468 m
Dunster First School
Community school
- 1.8 km
West Somerset College
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
Minehead Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 113
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 66
- Other theft 13
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Burglary 4
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- 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
2
within 5 km
DUNSTER & PORLOCK SURGERIES
WEST STREET, DUNSTER, MINEHEAD, TA24 6SN
ODS code L85065
589 m
MINEHEAD MEDICAL CENTRE
2 IRNHAM ROAD, MINEHEAD, TA24 5DL
ODS code L85019
3.2 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dunster Steep
BCT · Marsh Street
- 0.1 miles
Dunster Steep
BCT · Marsh Street
- 0.2 miles
High Street Newagents
BCT · Dunster
- 0.2 miles
High Street Courtyards
BCT · Dunster
- 0.3 miles
Dunster Showground
BCT · Marsh Street
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 005A, 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
11,665 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
113 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 66 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.