Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Topsham School is the nearest published school at 496 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX3 0DD
Topsham · Exeter · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Topsham
- Local authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East
- Postcode district
- EX3
- Postcode sector
- EX3 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX3 0DD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX3
- Postcode sector
- EX3 0
- Latitude
- 50.689602
- Longitude
- -3.466609
- British National Grid easting
- 296,500
- British National Grid northing
- 88,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Exeter · E07000041
- Electoral ward
- Topsham · E05011023
- Parish or community
- E43000052
- Westminster constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East · E14001232
- Output area
- E00101411
- Lower layer super output area
- Exeter 015G · E01034634
- Middle layer super output area
- Exeter 015 · E02004163
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 EX3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 496 m
The Topsham School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Trinity CofE Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Lady Seaward's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 490
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 210
- Criminal damage and arson 61
- Anti social behaviour 56
- Public order 42
- Other theft 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX3 0 residents
- 4,935
Age bands in EX3 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.2%
609 residents
857 residents
1,199 residents
1,404 residents
1,842 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
TOPSHAM SURGERY
HOLMAN WAY, TOPSHAM, EXETER, EX3 0EN
ODS code L83036
718 m
WESTBANK PRACTICE
THE LIMES SURGERY, CHURCH STILE, EXMINSTER, EXETER, EX6 8DF
ODS code L83041
2.2 km
WONFORD GREEN SURGERY
BURNTHOUSE LANE, EXETER, EX2 6NF
ODS code L83655
3.6 km
HILL BARTON SURGERY
1 LOWER HILL BARTON ROAD, EXETER, EX1 3EN
ODS code L83143
3.9 km
HEAVITREE PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83077
4.6 km
SOUTH LAWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83084
4.6 km
IDE LANE SURGERY
IDE LANE, ALPHINGTON, EXETER, EX2 8UP
ODS code L83079
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Hamilton Road
BCT · Topsham
- 0.2 miles
Denver Road
BCT · Topsham
- 0.2 miles
Hamilton Road
BCT · Topsham
- 0.2 miles
Denver Road
BCT · Topsham
- 0.2 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Topsham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Exeter 015G, 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
15,653 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
490 published events cover 12 months, averaging 40.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 210 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.