Schools
58 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Maynard School is the nearest published school at 322 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX2 4WU
Newtown and St Leonard's · Exeter · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX2 4WU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 June 2004
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX2
- Postcode sector
- EX2 4
- Latitude
- 50.721923
- Longitude
- -3.516666
- British National Grid easting
- 293,038
- British National Grid northing
- 92,465
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Exeter · E07000041
- Electoral ward
- Newtown and St Leonard's · E05011016
- Parish or community
- E43000052
- Westminster constituency
- Exeter · E14001231
- Output area
- E00101215
- Lower layer super output area
- Exeter 009A · E01019996
- Middle layer super output area
- Exeter 009 · E02004157
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 EX2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 58
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 5
- 322 m
The Maynard School
Other independent school
- 422 m
Exeter School
Other independent school
- 430 m
Magdalen Court School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,574
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,129
- Shoplifting 915
- Anti social behaviour 832
- Criminal damage and arson 577
- Public order 505
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX2 4 residents
- 6,207
Age bands in EX2 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.2%
868 residents
607 residents
1,731 residents
1,597 residents
1,219 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
15
within 5 km straight-line
BARNFIELD HILL SURGERY
10-12 BARNFIELD HILL, EXETER, EX1 1SR
ODS code L83024
325 m
ST LEONARDS PRACTICE
ATHELSTAN ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1SB
ODS code L83042
474 m
SOUTHERNHAY HOUSE SURGERY
30 BARNFIELD ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1RX
ODS code L83058
483 m
ISCA MEDICAL PRACTICE
38 POLSLOE ROAD, EXETER, EX1 2DW
ODS code L83099
709 m
HEAVITREE PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83077
797 m
SOUTH LAWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83084
797 m
INCLUSION HEALTH DEVON CIC
WAT TYLER HOUSE, KING WILLIAM STREET, EXETER, EX4 6PD
ODS code L83673
850 m
MOUNT PLEASANT HEALTH CENTRE
MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD, EXETER, EX4 7BW
ODS code L83066
1.2 km
WONFORD GREEN SURGERY
BURNTHOUSE LANE, EXETER, EX2 6NF
ODS code L83655
1.5 km
ST THOMAS MEDICAL GROUP
ST. THOMAS HEALTH CENTRE, COWICK STREET, ST. THOMAS, EXETER, EX4 1HJ
ODS code L83016
2.2 km
WHIPTON SURGERY
378 PINHOE ROAD, WHIPTON, EXETER, EX4 8EG
ODS code L83115
2.4 km
FOXHAYES PRACTICE
117 EXWICK ROAD, EXETER, EX4 2BH
ODS code Y00568
2.4 km
HILL BARTON SURGERY
1 LOWER HILL BARTON ROAD, EXETER, EX1 3EN
ODS code L83143
2.5 km
IDE LANE SURGERY
IDE LANE, ALPHINGTON, EXETER, EX2 8UP
ODS code L83079
2.8 km
PINHOE SURGERY
PINN LANE, PINHOE, EXETER, EX1 3SY
ODS code L83040
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
College Road
BCT · St Leonards
- 0.1 miles
College Road
BCT · St Leonards
- 0.1 miles
Waitrose
BCT · St Leonards
- 0.1 miles
St Lukes Campus
BCT · St Leonards
- 0.1 miles
Mount Radford
BCT · St Leonards
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Exeter 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,527 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
7,574 published events cover 12 months, averaging 631.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,129 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.