Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Kingsmoor Primary School is the nearest published school at 367 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA7 8PZ
Bridgwater East & Bawdrip · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater
- Postcode district
- TA7
- Postcode sector
- TA7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA7 8PZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA7
- Postcode sector
- TA7 8
- Latitude
- 51.148125
- Longitude
- -2.945026
- British National Grid easting
- 333,995
- British National Grid northing
- 139,188
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Bridgwater East & Bawdrip · E05014343
- Parish or community
- E04008605
- Westminster constituency
- Bridgwater · E14001126
- Output area
- E00186556
- Lower layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 012B · E01029137
- Middle layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 012 · E02006072
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 TA7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 367 m
Kingsmoor Primary School
Community school
- 2.4 km
Woolavington Village Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.4 km
Willowdown Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 71
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 50
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Public order 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Burglary 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA7 8 residents
- 6,637
Age bands in TA7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28%
838 residents
546 residents
1,126 residents
1,873 residents
1,705 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
REDGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTON ZOYLAND ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 5BF
ODS code L85051
3.9 km
EAST QUAY MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST QUAY, BRIDGWATER, TA6 4GP
ODS code L85035
4.1 km
CRANLEIGH GARDENS MEDICAL CENTRE
CRANLEIGH GARDENS, BRIDGWATER, TA6 5JS
ODS code L85025
4.2 km
TAUNTON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
12-16 TAUNTON ROAD, BRIDGWATER, TA6 3LS
ODS code L85042
4.7 km
POLDEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUARRY GROUND, EDINGTON, BRIDGWATER, TA7 9HA
ODS code L85024
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
St Michaels Church
BCT · Bawdrip
- 0.2 miles
St. Michaels Church
BCT · Bawdrip
- 0.3 miles
Chapel Cottage
BCT · Bradney
- 0.3 miles
Chapel Cottage
BCT · Bradney
- 0.3 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Bawdrip
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sedgemoor 012B, 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
15,128 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
71 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 50 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.