Property market
The five-year median is £380,000 from 1 recorded sale in EX21 5JL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Torridge is £260,783 in June 2026, up 3.9% year on year.
EX21 5JL
Broadheath · Torridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Beaworthy
- Ward
- Broadheath
- Local authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Postcode district
- EX21
- Postcode sector
- EX21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX21 5JL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX21
- Postcode sector
- EX21 5
- Latitude
- 50.819715
- Longitude
- -4.195140
- British National Grid easting
- 245,473
- British National Grid northing
- 104,539
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torridge · E07000046
- Electoral ward
- Broadheath · E05011921
- Parish or community
- E04003248
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00102774
- Lower layer super output area
- Torridge 009B · E01020289
- Middle layer super output area
- Torridge 009 · E02004228
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Palms, Highampton, Beaworthy, EX21 5JL | 10 June 2026 | £380,000 |
| The Palms, Highampton, Beaworthy, EX21 5JL | 31 July 2020 | £360,000 |
| The Palms, Highampton, Beaworthy, EX21 5JL | 26 August 2005 | £337,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Black Torrington Church of England Primary School
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- 3.3 km
Highampton Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.8 km
Bradford Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 5
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Other theft 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- EX21 5 residents
- 4,649
4 female, 4 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 0.2% 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
- 100%
- 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
BLACK TORRINGTON SURGERY
BOWHAY CLOSE, BLACK TORRINGTON, BEAWORTHY, EX21 5QE
ODS code L83663
1.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Black River Inn
BCT · Black Torrington
- 0.9 miles
Black River Inn
BCT · Black Torrington
- 0.9 miles
Primary School
BCT · Black Torrington
- 1.0 miles
Primary School
BCT · Black Torrington
- 1.6 miles
Dippermill Farm
BCT · Dippermill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torridge 009B, 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
10,414 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 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
- 0
- 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
5 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Black Torrington Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.