Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Tiverton High School is the nearest published school at 438 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX16 5FS
Tiverton Westexe · Mid Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tiverton Westexe
- Local authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead
- Postcode district
- EX16
- Postcode sector
- EX16 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX16 5FS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2017
- Terminated
- 1 May 2017
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX16
- Postcode sector
- EX16 5
- Latitude
- 50.911077
- Longitude
- -3.499479
- British National Grid easting
- 294,678
- British National Grid northing
- 113,473
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Mid Devon · E07000042
- Electoral ward
- Tiverton Westexe · E05014813
- Parish or community
- E04003055
- Westminster constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead · E14001548
- Output area
- E00180201
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Devon 002D · E01020080
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Devon 002 · E02004165
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 EX16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 438 m
Tiverton High School
Academy sponsor led
- 685 m
St John's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Heathcoat Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,236
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 516
- Criminal damage and arson 169
- Anti social behaviour 155
- Shoplifting 99
- Other theft 87
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX16 5 residents
- 5,731
Age bands in EX16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.3%
1,096 residents
555 residents
1,404 residents
1,372 residents
1,271 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
CASTLE PLACE PRACTICE
KENNEDY WAY, TIVERTON, EX16 6NP
ODS code L83052
525 m
AMICUS HEALTH
CLARE HOUSE SURGERY, NEWPORT STREET, TIVERTON, EX16 6NJ
ODS code L83085
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Winder Crescent
BCT · Cotteylands
- 0.2 miles
Washfield Lane
BCT · Washfield
- 0.2 miles
Farleigh Meadows
BCT · Washfield
- 0.3 miles
Leat Meadow
BCT · Cotteylands
- 0.3 miles
Leat Meadow
BCT · Cotteylands
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Devon 002D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,092 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,236 published events cover 12 months, averaging 103 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 516 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.