Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Hamp Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA6 6YS
North Petherton · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- North Petherton
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater
- Postcode district
- TA6
- Postcode sector
- TA6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA6 6YS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- 1 April 2001
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA6
- Postcode sector
- TA6 6
- Latitude
- 51.109366
- Longitude
- -3.014916
- British National Grid easting
- 329,047
- British National Grid northing
- 134,943
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- North Petherton · E05014376
- Parish or community
- E04008637
- Westminster constituency
- Bridgwater · E14001126
- Output area
- E00186589
- Lower layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 014K · E01035120
- Middle layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 014 · E02006074
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
- 20
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.2 km
Hamp Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Somerset Bridge Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Hamp Nursery and Infants' School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,485
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 694
- Anti social behaviour 188
- Criminal damage and arson 136
- Public order 118
- Other theft 85
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA6 6 residents
- 13,016
Age bands in TA6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.9%
2,656 residents
1,292 residents
3,365 residents
3,235 residents
2,292 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
SOMERSET BRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
STOCKMOOR PARK, TAUNTON ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 6LD
ODS code L85607
1.5 km
TAUNTON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
12-16 TAUNTON ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 3LS
ODS code L85042
1.9 km
NORTH PETHERTON SURGERY
MILL STREET, NORTH PETHERTON, BRIDGWATER, TA6 6LX
ODS code L85056
2.0 km
CRANLEIGH GARDENS MEDICAL CENTRE
CRANLEIGH GARDENS, BRIDGWATER, TA6 5JS
ODS code L85025
2.4 km
REDGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTON ZOYLAND ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 5BF
ODS code L85051
2.7 km
EAST QUAY MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST QUAY, BRIDGWATER, TA6 4GP
ODS code L85035
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Bryer Close
BCT · Hamp
- 0.4 miles
Bowerings Road
BCT · Hamp
- 0.4 miles
Allen Road
BCT · Hamp
- 0.4 miles
Risemoor Road
BCT · Bridgwater
- 0.4 miles
Risemoor Road
BCT · Bridgwater
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sedgemoor 014K, 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
17,050 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,485 published events cover 12 months, averaging 123.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 694 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.