Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Pathfield School is the nearest published school at 299 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX31 1GJ
Barnstaple with Pilton · North Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX31 1GJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 November 2006
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 1
- Latitude
- 51.084772
- Longitude
- -4.068362
- British National Grid easting
- 255,229
- British National Grid northing
- 133,753
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Devon · E07000043
- Electoral ward
- Barnstaple with Pilton · E05012413
- Parish or community
- E04012969
- Westminster constituency
- North Devon · E14001387
- Output area
- E00165928
- Lower layer super output area
- North Devon 007A · E01020132
- Middle layer super output area
- North Devon 007 · E02004181
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
- 299 m
Pathfield School
Foundation special school
- 355 m
Pilton Bluecoat Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 369 m
Pilton Community College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,379
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 894
- Shoplifting 432
- Anti social behaviour 258
- Public order 191
- Criminal damage and arson 171
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
934 m
BRANNAM MEDICAL CENTRE
BRANNAMS SQUARE, LITCHDON STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8GP
ODS code L83073
1.2 km
LITCHDON MEDICAL CENTRE
LANDKEY ROAD, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 9LL
ODS code L83035
2.5 km
FREMINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
11-13 BEARDS ROAD, FREMINGTON, BARNSTAPLE, EX31 2PG
ODS code L83057
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Two Rivers Industrial Estate
BCT · Pottington
- 0.1 miles
Fair View
BCT · Pilton
- 0.1 miles
Two Rivers Industrial Estate
BCT · Pottington
- 0.1 miles
Fair View
BCT · Pilton
- 0.2 miles
Pathfield School
BCT · Pilton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Devon 007A, 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
20,164 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,379 published events cover 12 months, averaging 198.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 894 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.