Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Okehampton College is the nearest published school at 2.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX20 4LS
Okehampton South · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Okehampton South
- Local authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon
- Postcode district
- EX20
- Postcode sector
- EX20 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX20 4LS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX20
- Postcode sector
- EX20 4
- Latitude
- 50.713510
- Longitude
- -4.031133
- British National Grid easting
- 256,700
- British National Grid northing
- 92,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- West Devon · E07000047
- Electoral ward
- Okehampton South · E05010562
- Parish or community
- E04003343
- Westminster constituency
- Central Devon · E14001155
- Output area
- E00103004
- Lower layer super output area
- West Devon 002C · E01020329
- Middle layer super output area
- West Devon 002 · E02004230
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 EX20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.4 km
Okehampton College
Academy converter
- 3.5 km
The Promise School
Free schools special
- 3.6 km
The Promise School
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Burglary 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX20 4 residents
- 3,282
Age bands in EX20 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.2%
400 residents
291 residents
478 residents
1,087 residents
978 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
OKEHAMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST STREET, OKEHAMPTON, EX20 1AY
ODS code L83087
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Meldon Quarry Station (Dartmoor Railway)
MET · Meldon
- 0.1 miles
Meldon Quarry Station (Dartmoor Railway)
TMU · Meldon
- 0.6 miles
Hughslade
BCT · Meldon
- 0.6 miles
Hughslade
BCT · Meldon
- 0.6 miles
Betty Cottles
BCT · Meldon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Devon 002C, 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
16,392 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.