Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Spreyton School is the nearest published school at 305 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX17 5BQ
Drewsteignton · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 5BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 2009
- Terminated
- 1 August 2009
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX17
- Postcode sector
- EX17 5
- Latitude
- 50.758379
- Longitude
- -3.843401
- British National Grid easting
- 270,077
- British National Grid northing
- 97,042
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 305 m
Spreyton School
Foundation school
- 4.9 km
Bow Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 22
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 15
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Possession of weapons 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX17 5 residents
- 3,549
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
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Spreyton
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Spreyton
- 0.2 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Spreyton
- 1.3 miles
Fuidge Cross
BCT · Spreyton
- 1.3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
22 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 15 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.