Property market
The five-year median is £390,000 from 1 recorded sale in EX21 5AX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Devon is £286,145 in June 2026, down 0.7% year on year.
EX21 5AX
Hatherleigh · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Beaworthy
- Ward
- Hatherleigh
- Local authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon
- Postcode district
- EX21
- Postcode sector
- EX21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX21 5AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX21
- Postcode sector
- EX21 5
- Latitude
- 50.779943
- Longitude
- -4.163868
- British National Grid easting
- 247,546
- British National Grid northing
- 100,052
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- West Devon · E07000047
- Electoral ward
- Hatherleigh · E05010558
- Parish or community
- E04003340
- Westminster constituency
- Central Devon · E14001155
- Output area
- E00102959
- Lower layer super output area
- West Devon 001E · E01034642
- Middle layer super output area
- West Devon 001 · E02004229
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 EX21
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Beech, Beaworthy, EX21 5AX | 21 September 2023 | £390,000 |
| Lower Whiddon, Beaworthy, EX21 5AX | 17 November 2004 | £590,000 |
| Lower Whiddon, Beaworthy, EX21 5AX | 19 April 1999 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.0 km
Halwill Community Primary School
Community school
- 3.1 km
Northlew and Ashbury Parochial Church of England Primary School
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- 4.7 km
Highampton Community Primary School
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- EX21 5 residents
- 4,649
7 female, 5 male
Age bands in EX21 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.3%
583 residents
391 residents
725 residents
1,470 residents
1,445 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX21 5 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 80%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 80%
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.
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
Post Box
BCT · Northlew
- 1.1 miles
Post Box
BCT · Northlew
- 1.8 miles
Metherell Cross
BCT · Patchacott
- 1.8 miles
Metherell Cross
BCT · Patchacott
- 2.4 miles
Ashbury Station Cross
BCT · Broadbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Devon 001E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,849 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Halwill Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.