Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. Bishop Fox's School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA3 7BH
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA3 7BH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA3
- Postcode sector
- TA3 7
- Latitude
- 50.993586
- Longitude
- -3.077409
- British National Grid easting
- 324,484
- British National Grid northing
- 122,130
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Blackdown & Neroche · E05014340
- Parish or community
- E04008815
- Westminster constituency
- Taunton and Wellington · E14001540
- Output area
- E00149120
- Lower layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 019B · E01029270
- Middle layer super output area
- Somerset West and Taunton 019 · E02006112
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
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Orchard Barns, 2, Shoreditch, Taunton, TA3 7BH | 18 December 2020 | £485,000 |
| Little Oaks, Shoreditch, Taunton, TA3 7BH | 15 August 2017 | £675,000 |
| Orchard Barns, 2, Shoreditch, Taunton, TA3 7BH | 18 November 2016 | £312,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.8 km
Bishop Fox's School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Holway Park Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Richard Huish College
Academy 16-19 converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 377
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 192
- Anti social behaviour 46
- Public order 40
- Other theft 22
- Criminal damage and arson 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 40
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- TA3 7 residents
- 4,408
20 female, 20 male
Age bands in TA3 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.5%
651 residents
365 residents
721 residents
1,325 residents
1,219 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TA3 7 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+
- 31.3%
- 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
8
within 5 km
WARWICK HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOLWAY GREEN, UPPER HOLWAY ROAD, TAUNTON, TA1 2QA
ODS code L85052
1.5 km
TAUNTON VALE HEALTHCARE
THE BLACKBROOK SURGERY, LISIEUX WAY, TAUNTON, TA1 2LB
ODS code L85014
2.4 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
COAL ORCHARD, TAUNTON, TA1 1JP
ODS code L85023
3.2 km
COLLEGE WAY SURGERY
COMEYTROWE CENTRE, TAUNTON, TA1 4TY
ODS code L85021
3.3 km
FRENCH WEIR HEALTH CENTRE
FRENCH WEIR AVENUE, TAUNTON, TA1 1NW
ODS code L85001
3.8 km
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE
CROWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, VENTURE WAY, TAUNTON, TA2 8QY
ODS code L85006
4.0 km
CREECH
HYDE LANE, CREECH ST. MICHAEL, TAUNTON, TA3 5FA
ODS code L85609
4.5 km
LYNGFORD PARK
FLETCHER CLOSE, TAUNTON, TA2 8SQ
ODS code L85062
4.9 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
- 0.2 miles
Shoreditch Racecourse
BCT · Shoreditch
- 0.2 miles
Shoreditch Racecourse
BCT · Shoreditch
- 0.2 miles
Taunton Racecourse
BCT · Shoreditch
- 0.4 miles
Chestnut Drive
BCT · Taunton
- 0.4 miles
Chestnut Drive
BCT · Taunton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Somerset West and Taunton 019B, 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
15,543 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 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
- 3
- 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
Recorded crime
377 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 192 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.