Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Seaton Primary School is the nearest published school at 978 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX12 2XL
Seaton · East Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Seaton
- Local authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth
- Postcode district
- EX12
- Postcode sector
- EX12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX12 2XL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX12
- Postcode sector
- EX12 2
- Latitude
- 50.703806
- Longitude
- -3.070525
- British National Grid easting
- 324,500
- British National Grid northing
- 89,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- East Devon · E07000040
- Electoral ward
- Seaton · E05011802
- Parish or community
- E04002986
- Westminster constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth · E14001291
- Output area
- E00100957
- Lower layer super output area
- East Devon 010B · E01019947
- Middle layer super output area
- East Devon 010 · E02004138
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 EX12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 978 m
Seaton Primary School
Community school
- 2.1 km
Beer Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Colyton Grammar School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 339
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 180
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Other theft 30
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Public order 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX12 2 residents
- 7,684
Age bands in EX12 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 44.1%
728 residents
529 residents
1,017 residents
2,024 residents
3,390 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
TOWNSEND HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
49 HAREPATH ROAD, SEATON, EX12 2RY
ODS code L83054
556 m
SEATON & COLYTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
148 HAREPATH ROAD, SEATON, EX12 2DU
ODS code L83007
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sea Front
BCT · Seaton
- 0.1 miles
Tramway Station
BCT · Seaton
- 0.1 miles
Cross Street
BCT · Seaton
- 0.1 miles
Tramway Station
BCT · Seaton
- 0.1 miles
Seaton Terminus (Seaton Tramway)
TMU · Seaton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Devon 010B, 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
19,485 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
339 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 180 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.