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TA23 crime rate and statistics
The TA23 postcode district, in the TA (Taunton) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 504 street-crime records for TA23 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 46.1% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 87.9 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 113.1 for Avon and Somerset Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
504
Latest month (August 2026)
43
Year-on-year
+46.1%
Month-by-month totals
510
32
Sep
39
Oct
35
Nov
40
Dec
31
Jan
49
Feb
47
Mar
49
Apr
51
May
41
Jun
47
Jul
43
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
32
October 2025
39
November 2025
35
December 2025
40
January 2026
31
February 2026
49
March 2026
47
April 2026
49
May 2026
51
June 2026
41
July 2026
47
August 2026
43
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
TA23
87.9
Avon and Somerset Police
113.1
504 records and 5,734 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of TA23 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences42.1%
212 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour16.5%
83 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson10.3%
52 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting9.7%
49 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Public order5.8%
29 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft5.2%
26 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary2.6%
13 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Vehicle crime2.6%
13 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in TA23
Records by part of TA23: the north-east 665, the south 8, the centre 6, the west 5.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of TA23's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and TA23's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of TA23 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore TA23 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for TA23 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
261
2022
271
2023
242
2024
329
2025
383
2026 (part year)
358
Is TA23 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for TA23 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 42 records a month. The busiest month was May 2026, with 51.
Records here changed by +46.1% on the 12 months before, against +3.5% across the Avon and Somerset Police area over the same months. With 504 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 42.1% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in TA23 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 5,734 Census 2021 residents of TA23.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
60%3
40%4
0%5
0%6
0%7
0%8
0%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
About TA23 beyond crime
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
House prices
Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£240,000 (53)
2025
£256,000 (93)
2024
£265,000 (103)
2023
£251,000 (70)
2022
£262,550 (95)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£335,000 (17)
£244,000 (14)
£210,000 (20)
– (2)
2025
£405,000 (30)
£240,000 (29)
£235,000 (29)
£159,950 (5)
2024
£405,000 (35)
£255,000 (33)
£222,500 (26)
£177,000 (9)
2023
£350,000 (24)
£250,000 (22)
£224,250 (21)
– (3)
2022
£380,000 (23)
£280,000 (25)
£230,000 (35)
£126,500 (12)
Schools and colleges
2 open establishments with a postcode in TA23, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.
Highest band
Postcodes
High
31
Medium
7
Low
14
Very low
2
Broadband
Share of the 252 postcodes in TA23 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
9.5%
15.5%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
83.3%
90.1%
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