Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Eastover Primary School is the nearest published school at 485 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA6 5AD
Bridgwater North & Central · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater
- Postcode district
- TA6
- Postcode sector
- TA6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA6 5AD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2013
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA6
- Postcode sector
- TA6 5
- Latitude
- 51.128772
- Longitude
- -2.999379
- British National Grid easting
- 330,164
- British National Grid northing
- 137,086
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Bridgwater North & Central · E05014344
- Parish or community
- E04008655
- Westminster constituency
- Bridgwater · E14001126
- Output area
- E00148183
- Lower layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 009B · E01029095
- Middle layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 009 · E02006069
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 TA6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 485 m
Eastover Primary School
Community school
- 508 m
Northgate Primary School
Free schools
- 896 m
University Centre Somerset College Group
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,305
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,741
- Shoplifting 821
- Anti social behaviour 644
- Public order 630
- Criminal damage and arson 423
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA6 5 residents
- 6,282
Age bands in TA6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
1,007 residents
598 residents
1,859 residents
1,649 residents
1,221 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
CRANLEIGH GARDENS MEDICAL CENTRE
CRANLEIGH GARDENS, BRIDGWATER, TA6 5JS
ODS code L85025
282 m
TAUNTON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
12-16 TAUNTON ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 3LS
ODS code L85042
482 m
EAST QUAY MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST QUAY, BRIDGWATER, TA6 4GP
ODS code L85035
771 m
REDGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTON ZOYLAND ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 5BF
ODS code L85051
846 m
SOMERSET BRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
STOCKMOOR PARK, TAUNTON ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 6LD
ODS code L85607
1.6 km
NORTH PETHERTON SURGERY
MILL STREET, NORTH PETHERTON, BRIDGWATER, TA6 6LX
ODS code L85056
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Town Bridge Eastover
BCT · Bridgwater
- 0.1 miles
Town Bridge Eastover
BCT · Bridgwater
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Bridgwater
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Bridgwater
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Bridgwater
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sedgemoor 009B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,374 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6,305 published events cover 12 months, averaging 525.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,741 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.