Property market
The five-year median is £775,000 from 2 recorded sales in EX3 0LS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Exeter is £280,982 in June 2026, down 1.7% year on year.
EX3 0LS
Topsham · Exeter · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX3 0LS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX3
- Postcode sector
- EX3 0
- Latitude
- 50.688906
- Longitude
- -3.476186
- British National Grid easting
- 295,822
- British National Grid northing
- 88,736
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
- E00101410
- Lower layer super output area
- Exeter 015H · E01034635
- 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
Property
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Retreat Bungalow, The Retreat Drive, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0LS | 18 July 2025 | £350,000 |
| Tideways, The Retreat Drive, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0LS | 22 June 2023 | £1,200,000 |
| The Retreat, Flat 1, The Retreat Drive, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0LS | 28 November 2018 | £400,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 612 m
The Topsham School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Trinity CofE Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Countess Wear Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 636
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 288
- Criminal damage and arson 70
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Public order 52
- Other theft 47
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- EX3 0 residents
- 4,935
19 female, 15 male
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
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX3 0 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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 77.8%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 77.8%
- Gigabit-capable
- 77.8%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 94.4%
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
9
within 5 km
TOPSHAM SURGERY
HOLMAN WAY, TOPSHAM, EXETER, EX3 0EN
ODS code L83036
1.1 km
WESTBANK PRACTICE
THE LIMES SURGERY, CHURCH STILE, EXMINSTER, EXETER, EX6 8DF
ODS code L83041
1.7 km
WONFORD GREEN SURGERY
BURNTHOUSE LANE, EXETER, EX2 6NF
ODS code L83655
3.2 km
HILL BARTON SURGERY
1 LOWER HILL BARTON ROAD, EXETER, EX1 3EN
ODS code L83143
3.9 km
IDE LANE SURGERY
IDE LANE, ALPHINGTON, EXETER, EX2 8UP
ODS code L83079
4.3 km
HEAVITREE PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83077
4.3 km
SOUTH LAWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83084
4.3 km
BARNFIELD HILL SURGERY
10-12 BARNFIELD HILL, EXETER, EX1 1SR
ODS code L83024
5.0 km
WHIPTON SURGERY
378 PINHOE ROAD, WHIPTON, EXETER, EX4 8EG
ODS code L83115
5.0 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
Fairway
BCT · Topsham
- 0.2 miles
The Retreat Drive
BCT · Topsham
- 0.2 miles
Fairway
BCT · Topsham
- 0.2 miles
The Retreat Drive
BCT · Topsham
- 0.3 miles
Hamilton Road
BCT · Topsham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Exeter 015H, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,023 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 9
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- 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
37 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. The Topsham School is the nearest published school at 612 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
636 published events cover 12 months, averaging 53 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 288 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.