Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Pilton Infants' Academy is the nearest published school at 548 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX31 1DQ
Barnstaple Central · North Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Barnstaple Central
- Local authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX31 1DQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 1
- Latitude
- 51.081694
- Longitude
- -4.062927
- British National Grid easting
- 255,600
- British National Grid northing
- 133,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Devon · E07000043
- Electoral ward
- Barnstaple Central · E05012412
- Parish or community
- E04012969
- Westminster constituency
- North Devon · E14001387
- Output area
- E00101753
- Lower layer super output area
- North Devon 008A · E01020094
- Middle layer super output area
- North Devon 008 · E02004182
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 EX31
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 548 m
Pilton Infants' Academy
Academy converter
- 605 m
Pilton Bluecoat Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 622 m
Pathfield School
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,714
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,058
- Shoplifting 442
- Anti social behaviour 300
- Public order 213
- Criminal damage and arson 200
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX31 1 residents
- 3,677
Age bands in EX31 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.2%
536 residents
388 residents
1,013 residents
1,092 residents
1,188 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
6-7 QUEEN STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8HY
ODS code L83003
435 m
BRANNAM MEDICAL CENTRE
BRANNAMS SQUARE, LITCHDON STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8GP
ODS code L83073
654 m
LITCHDON MEDICAL CENTRE
LANDKEY ROAD, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 9LL
ODS code L83035
2.0 km
FREMINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
11-13 BEARDS ROAD, FREMINGTON, BARNSTAPLE, EX31 2PG
ODS code L83057
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mermaid Cross
BCT · Barnstaple
- 0.2 miles
Green Lanes
BCT · Barnstaple
- 0.2 miles
Green Lanes
BCT · Barnstaple
- 0.2 miles
Queens Theatre
BCT · Barnstaple
- 0.2 miles
Barclays Bank
BCT · Barnstaple
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Devon 008A, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,570 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
2,714 published events cover 12 months, averaging 226.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,058 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.