Property market
The five-year median is £471,000 from 2 recorded sales in EX31 3QJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Torridge is £260,783 in June 2026, up 3.9% year on year.
EX31 3QJ
Two Rivers & Three Moors · Torridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnstaple
- Local authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX31 3QJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 3
- Latitude
- 51.007698
- Longitude
- -4.111032
- British National Grid easting
- 251,995
- British National Grid northing
- 125,268
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torridge · E07000046
- Electoral ward
- Two Rivers & Three Moors · E05011929
- Parish or community
- E04003242
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00102705
- Lower layer super output area
- Torridge 004B · E01020278
- Middle layer super output area
- Torridge 004 · E02004223
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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Beauregard, 5, Alscott Gardens, Alverdiscott, Barnstaple, EX31 3QJ | 16 January 2023 | £512,000 |
| 3, Alscott Gardens, Alverdiscott, Barnstaple, EX31 3QJ | 13 October 2021 | £430,000 |
| 8, Alscott Gardens, Alverdiscott, Barnstaple, EX31 3QJ | 19 December 2016 | £350,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.2 km
Horwood and Newton Tracey Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Other crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- EX31 3 residents
- 11,035
10 female, 13 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+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 88.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 88.9%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
All Saints' Church
BCT · Alverdiscott
- 0.0 miles
All Saints' Church
BCT · Alverdiscott
- 1.1 miles
Hunters Inn
BCT · Newton Tracey
- 1.1 miles
Hunters Inn
BCT · Newton Tracey
- 1.3 miles
School
BCT · Lower Lovacott
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torridge 004B, 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
14,786 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 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
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Horwood and Newton Tracey Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.