Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Dovecote School is the nearest published school at 658 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TA7 9YT
King Alfred · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- King Alfred
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Postcode district
- TA7
- Postcode sector
- TA7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TA7 9YT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- TA
- Postcode district
- TA7
- Postcode sector
- TA7 9
- Latitude
- 51.141671
- Longitude
- -2.843486
- British National Grid easting
- 341,089
- British National Grid northing
- 138,384
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- King Alfred · E05014367
- Parish or community
- E04008643
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00148374
- Lower layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 012A · E01029130
- 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
- 4
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 658 m
Dovecote School
Other independent special school
- 2.0 km
Catcott Primary School
Community school
- 2.5 km
The Levels School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Burglary 2
- Vehicle crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TA7 9 residents
- 4,026
Age bands in TA7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.6%
452 residents
342 residents
596 residents
1,312 residents
1,306 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
POLDEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUARRY GROUND, EDINGTON, BRIDGWATER, TA7 9HA
ODS code L85024
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Shapwick Church
BCT · Shapwick
- 0.4 miles
Shapwick Church
BCT · Shapwick
- 0.5 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Shapwick
- 0.6 miles
High Lane
BCT · Shapwick
- 0.6 miles
High Lane
BCT · Shapwick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sedgemoor 012A, 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
18,770 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.