Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hayward's Primary School is the nearest published school at 543 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX17 2AB
Crediton Lawrence · Mid Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Crediton
- Ward
- Crediton Lawrence
- Local authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon
- Postcode district
- EX17
- Postcode sector
- EX17 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX17 2AB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2016
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX17
- Postcode sector
- EX17 2
- Latitude
- 50.792813
- Longitude
- -3.653982
- British National Grid easting
- 283,522
- British National Grid northing
- 100,555
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Mid Devon · E07000042
- Electoral ward
- Crediton Lawrence · E05014801
- Parish or community
- E04003021
- Westminster constituency
- Central Devon · E14001155
- Output area
- E00101568
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Devon 011C · E01020060
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Devon 011 · E02004174
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 EX17
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Newcombes Resource Centre, Crediton, EX17 2AB | 4 July 2014 | £185,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 543 m
Hayward's Primary School
Community school
- 860 m
Queen Elizabeth's
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Landscore Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 764
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 333
- Shoplifting 122
- Criminal damage and arson 74
- Anti social behaviour 65
- Other theft 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX17 2 residents
- 2,401
Age bands in EX17 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 31%
334 residents
217 residents
422 residents
601 residents
707 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
REDLANDS PRIMARY CARE
JOSEPH LOCKE WAY, CREDITON, EX17 3FD
ODS code L83127
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Clifford Gardens
BCT · Crediton
- 0.1 miles
Pounds Hill
BCT · Crediton
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Crediton
- 0.1 miles
Longmeadows
BCT · Crediton
- 0.2 miles
Blagdon
BCT · Crediton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Devon 011C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,085 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
764 published events cover 12 months, averaging 63.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 333 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.