Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Shebbear College is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX21 5JA
Shebbear & Langtree · Torridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shebbear & Langtree
- Local authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Postcode district
- EX21
- Postcode sector
- EX21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX21 5JA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX21
- Postcode sector
- EX21 5
- Latitude
- 50.860947
- Longitude
- -4.183904
- British National Grid easting
- 246,400
- British National Grid northing
- 109,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torridge · E07000046
- Electoral ward
- Shebbear & Langtree · E05011928
- Parish or community
- E04003254
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00102762
- Lower layer super output area
- Torridge 007A · E01020287
- Middle layer super output area
- Torridge 007 · E02004226
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Shebbear College
Other independent school
- 2.2 km
Shebbear Community School
Community school
- 3.4 km
Black Torrington Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
- Vehicle crime 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
- EX21 5 residents
- 4,649
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
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
BLACK TORRINGTON SURGERY
BOWHAY CLOSE, BLACK TORRINGTON, BEAWORTHY, EX21 5QE
ODS code L83663
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Shebbear College
BCT · Lake
- 0.9 miles
Shebbear College
BCT · Lake
- 1.1 miles
Hayes Cross
BCT · New Inn
- 1.3 miles
Rose Hill
BCT · Lake
- 1.3 miles
Rose Hill
BCT · Lake
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torridge 007A, 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
10,194 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.