Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 3 secondary schools. Matford Brook Academy is the nearest published school at 743 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX2 8PL
Alphington · Exeter · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alphington
- Local authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter
- Postcode district
- EX2
- Postcode sector
- EX2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX2 8PL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX2
- Postcode sector
- EX2 8
- Latitude
- 50.694031
- Longitude
- -3.529981
- British National Grid easting
- 292,034
- British National Grid northing
- 89,383
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Exeter · E07000041
- Electoral ward
- Alphington · E05011011
- Parish or community
- E43000052
- Westminster constituency
- Exeter · E14001231
- Output area
- E00101077
- Lower layer super output area
- Exeter 014C · E01019970
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 3
- 743 m
Matford Brook Academy
Free schools
- 896 m
Alphington Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
The Outdoors School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 479
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 185
- Other theft 52
- Anti social behaviour 44
- Public order 42
- Criminal damage and arson 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX2 8 residents
- 7,301
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
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
IDE LANE SURGERY
IDE LANE, ALPHINGTON, EXETER, EX2 8UP
ODS code L83079
700 m
ST THOMAS MEDICAL GROUP
ST. THOMAS HEALTH CENTRE, COWICK STREET, ST. THOMAS, EXETER, EX4 1HJ
ODS code L83016
2.5 km
WESTBANK PRACTICE
THE LIMES SURGERY, CHURCH STILE, EXMINSTER, EXETER, EX6 8DF
ODS code L83041
3.0 km
WONFORD GREEN SURGERY
BURNTHOUSE LANE, EXETER, EX2 6NF
ODS code L83655
3.1 km
SOUTHERNHAY HOUSE SURGERY
30 BARNFIELD ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1RX
ODS code L83058
3.2 km
BARNFIELD HILL SURGERY
10-12 BARNFIELD HILL, EXETER, EX1 1SR
ODS code L83024
3.3 km
ST LEONARDS PRACTICE
ATHELSTAN ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1SB
ODS code L83042
3.3 km
HEAVITREE PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83077
3.7 km
SOUTH LAWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83084
3.7 km
INCLUSION HEALTH DEVON CIC
WAT TYLER HOUSE, KING WILLIAM STREET, EXETER, EX4 6PD
ODS code L83673
3.7 km
FOXHAYES PRACTICE
117 EXWICK ROAD, EXETER, EX4 2BH
ODS code Y00568
3.8 km
ISCA MEDICAL PRACTICE
38 POLSLOE ROAD, EXETER, EX1 2DW
ODS code L83099
3.9 km
MOUNT PLEASANT HEALTH CENTRE
MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD, EXETER, EX4 7BW
ODS code L83066
4.4 km
HILL BARTON SURGERY
1 LOWER HILL BARTON ROAD, EXETER, EX1 3EN
ODS code L83143
4.7 km
TOPSHAM SURGERY
HOLMAN WAY, TOPSHAM, EXETER, EX3 0EN
ODS code L83036
4.9 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
Fawcett Way
BCT · Alphington
- 0.1 miles
Fawcett Way
BCT · Alphington
- 0.1 miles
Canon Way
BCT · Alphington
- 0.2 miles
Steeple Drive
BCT · Alphington
- 0.2 miles
Stanbury Row
BCT · Marsh Barton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Exeter 014C, 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
23,282 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
479 published events cover 12 months, averaging 39.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 185 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.