Property market
The five-year median is £961,250 from 2 recorded sales in EX17 5AX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Devon is £286,145 in June 2026, down 0.7% year on year.
EX17 5AX
Drewsteignton · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Crediton
- Ward
- Drewsteignton
- Local authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon
- Postcode district
- EX17
- Postcode sector
- EX17 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX17 5AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX17
- Postcode sector
- EX17 5
- Latitude
- 50.760454
- Longitude
- -3.867872
- British National Grid easting
- 268,357
- British National Grid northing
- 97,316
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- West Devon · E07000047
- Electoral ward
- Drewsteignton · E05010556
- Parish or community
- E04003350
- Westminster constituency
- Central Devon · E14001155
- Output area
- E00102941
- Lower layer super output area
- West Devon 003B · E01020319
- Middle layer super output area
- West Devon 003 · E02004231
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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tor Yard Barn, Spreyton, Crediton, EX17 5AX | 16 May 2025 | £922,500 |
| Yeo Vale, Spreyton, Crediton, EX17 5AX | 17 October 2022 | £1,000,000 |
| Higher Cullaford Farm, Spreyton, Crediton, EX17 5AX | 2 December 2020 | £420,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.8 km
Spreyton School
Foundation school
- 4.6 km
North Tawton Community Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
- 4.9 km
South Tawton Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 44
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- EX17 5 residents
- 3,549
25 female, 19 male
Age bands in EX17 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.4%
632 residents
311 residents
799 residents
1,073 residents
861 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX17 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 85.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 78.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 78.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 78.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 7.1%
- Next Generation Access
- 92.9%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 78.6%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Church
BCT · Spreyton
- 1.2 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Spreyton
- 1.2 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Spreyton
- 1.9 miles
Fuidge Cross
BCT · Spreyton
- 1.9 miles
Fuidge Cross
BCT · Spreyton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Devon 003B, 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
12,050 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Spreyton School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.