Property market
The five-year median is £392,500 from 2 recorded sales in EX21 5LS. 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 5LS
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 5LS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX21
- Postcode sector
- EX21 5
- Latitude
- 50.818512
- Longitude
- -4.153484
- British National Grid easting
- 248,403
- British National Grid northing
- 104,319
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- West Devon · E07000047
- Electoral ward
- Hatherleigh · E05010558
- Parish or community
- E04003324
- Westminster constituency
- Central Devon · E14001155
- Output area
- E00102955
- Lower layer super output area
- West Devon 001B · E01020321
- 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
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Foxlands, Church Road, Highampton, Beaworthy, EX21 5LS | 29 November 2024 | £310,000 |
| Tree Tops, Church Road, Highampton, Beaworthy, EX21 5LS | 11 October 2023 | £475,000 |
| Exmoor View, Church Road, Highampton, Beaworthy, EX21 5LS | 3 February 2020 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 459 m
Highampton Community Primary School
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- 2.4 km
Black Torrington Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- EX21 5 residents
- 4,649
15 female, 11 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 0.6% 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+
- 78.6%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 78.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 78.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 78.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
2.1 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
Old Post Office
BCT · Highampton
- 0.1 miles
Old Post Office
BCT · Highampton
- 1.3 miles
Square
BCT · Sheepwash
- 1.3 miles
Square
BCT · Sheepwash
- 1.4 miles
Black River Inn
BCT · Black Torrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Devon 001B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,229 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Highampton Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 459 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.