Property market
The five-year median is £227,500 from 8 recorded sales in EX2 8GU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Exeter is £280,982 in June 2026, down 1.7% year on year.
EX2 8GU
St David's · Exeter · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX2 8GU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX2
- Postcode sector
- EX2 8
- Latitude
- 50.717272
- Longitude
- -3.531192
- British National Grid easting
- 292,002
- British National Grid northing
- 91,969
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Exeter · E07000041
- Electoral ward
- St David's · E05011020
- Parish or community
- E43000052
- Westminster constituency
- Exeter · E14001231
- Output area
- E00101094
- Lower layer super output area
- Exeter 014D · E01019971
- Middle layer super output area
- Exeter 014 · E02004162
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
Property
70 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 18, Waterside, Exeter, EX2 8GU | 13 February 2026 | £185,000 |
| 28, Waterside, Exeter, EX2 8GU | 15 September 2025 | £230,000 |
| 20, Waterside, Exeter, EX2 8GU | 12 March 2025 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 56
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 5
- 483 m
Exeter Cathedral School
Other independent school
- 603 m
St Thomas Primary School
Academy converter
- 685 m
St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,362
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,863
- Shoplifting 1,083
- Anti social behaviour 837
- Criminal damage and arson 542
- Public order 497
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- EX2 8 residents
- 7,301
22 female, 19 male
Age bands in EX2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
960 residents
717 residents
2,139 residents
1,909 residents
1,618 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX2 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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.
GP practices
16
within 5 km
SOUTHERNHAY HOUSE SURGERY
30 BARNFIELD ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1RX
ODS code L83058
806 m
ST LEONARDS PRACTICE
ATHELSTAN ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1SB
ODS code L83042
934 m
BARNFIELD HILL SURGERY
10-12 BARNFIELD HILL, EXETER, EX1 1SR
ODS code L83024
991 m
ST THOMAS MEDICAL GROUP
ST. THOMAS HEALTH CENTRE, COWICK STREET, ST. THOMAS, EXETER, EX4 1HJ
ODS code L83016
1.0 km
INCLUSION HEALTH DEVON CIC
WAT TYLER HOUSE, KING WILLIAM STREET, EXETER, EX4 6PD
ODS code L83673
1.2 km
FOXHAYES PRACTICE
117 EXWICK ROAD, EXETER, EX4 2BH
ODS code Y00568
1.6 km
ISCA MEDICAL PRACTICE
38 POLSLOE ROAD, EXETER, EX1 2DW
ODS code L83099
1.8 km
HEAVITREE PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83077
1.9 km
SOUTH LAWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83084
1.9 km
IDE LANE SURGERY
IDE LANE, ALPHINGTON, EXETER, EX2 8UP
ODS code L83079
2.0 km
MOUNT PLEASANT HEALTH CENTRE
MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD, EXETER, EX4 7BW
ODS code L83066
2.0 km
WONFORD GREEN SURGERY
BURNTHOUSE LANE, EXETER, EX2 6NF
ODS code L83655
2.3 km
WHIPTON SURGERY
378 PINHOE ROAD, WHIPTON, EXETER, EX4 8EG
ODS code L83115
3.5 km
HILL BARTON SURGERY
1 LOWER HILL BARTON ROAD, EXETER, EX1 3EN
ODS code L83143
3.6 km
PINHOE SURGERY
PINN LANE, PINHOE, EXETER, EX1 3SY
ODS code L83040
4.9 km
WESTBANK PRACTICE
THE LIMES SURGERY, CHURCH STILE, EXMINSTER, EXETER, EX6 8DF
ODS code L83041
5.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Quay
BCT · Haven Banks
- 0.1 miles
Greenford Villas
BCT · Haven Banks
- 0.1 miles
Greenford Villas
BCT · Haven Banks
- 0.2 miles
Malt House
BCT · Haven Banks
- 0.2 miles
Commercial Road
BCT · Haven Banks
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Exeter 014D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,703 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 6
- Medium risk addresses
- 9
- Low risk addresses
- 18
- 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
56 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 5 secondary schools. Exeter Cathedral School is the nearest published school at 483 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,362 published events cover 12 months, averaging 613.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,863 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.