Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Acorn School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX18 7YY
Taw Vale · Mid Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Taw Vale
- Local authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon
- Postcode district
- EX18
- Postcode sector
- EX18 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX18 7YY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX18
- Postcode sector
- EX18 7
- Latitude
- 50.871286
- Longitude
- -3.901537
- British National Grid easting
- 266,300
- British National Grid northing
- 109,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Mid Devon · E07000042
- Electoral ward
- Taw Vale · E05014809
- Parish or community
- E04003061
- Westminster constituency
- Central Devon · E14001155
- Output area
- E00101636
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Devon 009A · E01020072
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Devon 009 · E02004172
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 EX18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.6 km
Acorn School
Other independent special school
- 3.7 km
Winkleigh Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX18 7 residents
- 3,287
Age bands in EX18 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.4%
383 residents
303 residents
507 residents
1,001 residents
915 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
- 0.3 miles
Lymington Arms
BCT · Wembworthy
- 0.3 miles
Lymington Arms
BCT · Wembworthy
- 0.9 miles
Partridge Walls Cross
BCT · Wembworthy
- 0.9 miles
Partridge Walls Cross
BCT · Wembworthy
- 1.4 miles
Post Box
BCT · Brushford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Devon 009A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,680 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.