Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Polden Bower School is the nearest published school at 895 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA6 5LR
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 5LR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA6
- Postcode sector
- TA6 5
- Latitude
- 51.122669
- Longitude
- -2.991588
- British National Grid easting
- 330,700
- British National Grid northing
- 136,400
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
- E00186646
- Lower layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 009A · E01029094
- 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
- 21
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 895 m
Polden Bower School
Foundation special school
- 909 m
Eastover Primary School
Community school
- 910 m
St John and St Francis Church School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,958
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,554
- Shoplifting 812
- Anti social behaviour 629
- Public order 578
- Criminal damage and arson 390
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
REDGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTON ZOYLAND ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 5BF
ODS code L85051
493 m
CRANLEIGH GARDENS MEDICAL CENTRE
CRANLEIGH GARDENS, BRIDGWATER, TA6 5JS
ODS code L85025
614 m
TAUNTON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
12-16 TAUNTON ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 3LS
ODS code L85042
738 m
SOMERSET BRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
STOCKMOOR PARK, TAUNTON ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 6LD
ODS code L85607
928 m
EAST QUAY MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST QUAY, BRIDGWATER, TA6 4GP
ODS code L85035
1.6 km
NORTH PETHERTON SURGERY
MILL STREET, NORTH PETHERTON, BRIDGWATER, TA6 6LX
ODS code L85056
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Sedgemoor Road
BCT · Bridgwater
- 0.2 miles
Sedgemoor Road
BCT · Bridgwater
- 0.3 miles
Redgate Medical Centre
BCT · Bridgwater
- 0.3 miles
Redgate Medical Centre
BCT · Bridgwater
- 0.3 miles
Sedgemoor Road
BCT · Sydenham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sedgemoor 009A, 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
16,517 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
5,958 published events cover 12 months, averaging 496.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,554 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.