Property market
The five-year median is £218,750 from 2 recorded sales in EX23 8AY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cornwall is £277,801 in June 2026, up 3.7% year on year.
EX23 8AY
Bude · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX23 8AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX23
- Postcode sector
- EX23 8
- Latitude
- 50.830754
- Longitude
- -4.544231
- British National Grid easting
- 220,929
- British National Grid northing
- 106,555
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Bude · E05013275
- Parish or community
- E04011409
- Westminster constituency
- North Cornwall · E14001385
- Output area
- E00095633
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 001A · E01018936
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 001 · E02003931
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 EX23
Property
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 25, Queen Street, Bude, EX23 8AY | 19 April 2024 | £172,500 |
| 11, Queen Street, Bude, EX23 8AY | 1 November 2022 | £265,000 |
| 7, Queen Street, Bude, EX23 8AY | 9 November 2018 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 528 m
Bude Primary Academy - Infants
Academy sponsor led
- 687 m
Bude Primary Academy - Juniors
Academy sponsor led
- 846 m
Budehaven Community School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 591
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 276
- Anti social behaviour 71
- Shoplifting 69
- Other theft 52
- Criminal damage and arson 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- EX23 8 residents
- 7,854
14 female, 9 male
Age bands in EX23 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 29%
1,185 residents
668 residents
1,562 residents
2,036 residents
2,228 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX23 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 91.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 91.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
2
within 5 km
NEETSIDE SURGERY
LEVEN ROAD, BUDE, EX23 8LA
ODS code Y01127
239 m
STRATTON MEDICAL CENTRE
HOSPITAL ROAD, STRATTON, BUDE, EX23 9BP
ODS code L82008
2.0 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
Co-op
BCT · Bude
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Flexbury
- 0.1 miles
Co-op
BCT · Bude
- 0.1 miles
The Strand
BCT · Bude
- 0.1 miles
Sainsburys
BCT · Flexbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 001A, 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
15,520 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 7
- Low risk addresses
- 13
- 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 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Bude Primary Academy - Infants is the nearest published school at 528 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
591 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 276 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.