Property market
The five-year median is £254,000 from 2 recorded sales in EX31 3HJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for North Devon is £281,532 in June 2026, down 0.2% year on year.
EX31 3HJ
Instow · North Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnstaple
- Ward
- Instow
- Local authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX31 3HJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 3
- Latitude
- 51.062470
- Longitude
- -4.167458
- British National Grid easting
- 248,216
- British National Grid northing
- 131,473
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Devon · E07000043
- Electoral ward
- Instow · E05012427
- Parish or community
- E04003096
- Westminster constituency
- North Devon · E14001387
- Output area
- E00101879
- Lower layer super output area
- North Devon 011D · E01020119
- Middle layer super output area
- North Devon 011 · E02004185
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
Property
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Estuary View, West Yelland, Barnstaple, EX31 3HJ | 28 March 2025 | £230,000 |
| 3, Estuary View, West Yelland, Barnstaple, EX31 3HJ | 24 November 2022 | £278,000 |
| 7, Estuary View, West Yelland, Barnstaple, EX31 3HJ | 17 December 2020 | £185,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 381 m
Instow Community Primary and Pre-School
Foundation school
- 2.4 km
Appledore School
Foundation school
- 2.9 km
Fremington Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 72
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 35
- Burglary 12
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Public order 4
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- EX31 3 residents
- 11,035
13 female, 7 male
Age bands in EX31 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.2%
1,976 residents
955 residents
2,664 residents
2,936 residents
2,878 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX31 3 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 7.1%
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
FREMINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
11-13 BEARDS ROAD, FREMINGTON, BARNSTAPLE, EX31 2PG
ODS code L83057
3.3 km
NORTHAM SURGERY
BAY VIEW ROAD, NORTHAM, BIDEFORD, EX39 1AZ
ODS code L83050
4.3 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Estuary View
BCT · Instow
- 0.1 miles
Rectory Lane
BCT · Instow
- 0.3 miles
Welch's Lane
BCT · Lower Yelland
- 0.3 miles
Welch's Lane
BCT · Lower Yelland
- 0.5 miles
Marine Camp
BCT · Instow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Devon 011D, 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
14,523 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Instow Community Primary and Pre-School is the nearest published school at 381 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
72 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 35 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.