Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. Aurora Foxes is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA24 8DS
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA24 8DS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA24
- Postcode sector
- TA24 8
- Latitude
- 51.199386
- Longitude
- -3.492148
- British National Grid easting
- 295,843
- British National Grid northing
- 145,522
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
- E00149463
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 002B · E01029331
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 002 · E02006114
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
- 1.0 km
Aurora Foxes
Special post 16 institution
- 1.1 km
Minehead First School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St Michael's Church of England First School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 644
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 274
- Shoplifting 85
- Anti social behaviour 83
- Public order 59
- Criminal damage and arson 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA24 8 residents
- 4,956
Age bands in TA24 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 38.7%
525 residents
308 residents
697 residents
1,267 residents
1,763 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
1.2 km
DUNSTER & PORLOCK SURGERIES
WEST STREET, DUNSTER, MINEHEAD, TA24 6SN
ODS code L85065
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Boyd House
BCT · Periton
- 0.2 miles
South Park
BCT · Periton
- 0.2 miles
Old Farm Road
BCT · Periton
- 0.3 miles
Poundfield Road
BCT · Periton
- 0.3 miles
Parkhouse Road
BCT · Periton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 002B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,429 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
644 published events cover 12 months, averaging 53.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 274 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.