Property market
The five-year median is £550,000 from 1 recorded sale in TA3 5LY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Somerset is £281,571 in June 2026, up 4.5% year on year.
TA3 5LY
Blackdown & Neroche · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Taunton
- Ward
- Blackdown & Neroche
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington
- Postcode district
- TA3
- Postcode sector
- TA3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA3 5LY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA3
- Postcode sector
- TA3 5
- Latitude
- 51.006703
- Longitude
- -3.045128
- British National Grid easting
- 326,770
- British National Grid northing
- 123,556
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Blackdown & Neroche · E05014340
- Parish or community
- E04008809
- Westminster constituency
- Taunton and Wellington · E14001540
- Output area
- E00149146
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 009D · E01029275
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 009 · E02006103
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 TA3
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Moonrakers, Lower Henlade, Taunton, TA3 5LY | 8 July 2024 | £550,000 |
| Wudumead, Lower Henlade, Taunton, TA3 5LY | 30 April 2021 | £400,000 |
| Barnwood, Lower Henlade, Taunton, TA3 5LY | 21 December 2020 | £525,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.1 km
Ruishton Church of England School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Cambian Somerset School
Other independent special school
- 2.3 km
Blackbrook Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 137
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 64
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Burglary 11
- Other theft 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- TA3 5 residents
- 5,851
17 female, 20 male
Age bands in TA3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.4%
854 residents
545 residents
1,035 residents
1,654 residents
1,706 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TA3 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 44.4%
- 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
7
within 5 km
WARWICK HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOLWAY GREEN, UPPER HOLWAY ROAD, TAUNTON, TA1 2QA
ODS code L85052
2.3 km
CREECH
HYDE LANE, CREECH ST. MICHAEL, TAUNTON, TA3 5FA
ODS code L85609
2.4 km
TAUNTON VALE HEALTHCARE
THE BLACKBROOK SURGERY, LISIEUX WAY, TAUNTON, TA1 2LB
ODS code L85014
2.7 km
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE
CROWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, VENTURE WAY, TAUNTON, TA2 8QY
ODS code L85006
3.5 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
COAL ORCHARD, TAUNTON, TA1 1JP
ODS code L85023
4.2 km
LYNGFORD PARK
FLETCHER CLOSE, TAUNTON, TA2 8SQ
ODS code L85062
4.6 km
FRENCH WEIR HEALTH CENTRE
FRENCH WEIR AVENUE, TAUNTON, TA1 1NW
ODS code L85001
5.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Henlade Cross
BCT · Henlade
- 0.4 miles
Henlade Cross
BCT · Henlade
- 0.5 miles
Bushy Cross
BCT · Haydon
- 0.5 miles
Thornfalcon School
BCT · Thornfalcon
- 0.5 miles
Bushy Cross
BCT · Haydon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 009D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,236 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 4
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ruishton Church of England School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
137 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 64 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.