Property market
The five-year median is £524,950 from 4 recorded sales in EX31 4EA. 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 4EA
Marwood · North Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnstaple
- Ward
- Marwood
- Local authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX31 4EA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 4
- Latitude
- 51.118219
- Longitude
- -4.074443
- British National Grid easting
- 254,908
- British National Grid northing
- 137,484
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Devon · E07000043
- Electoral ward
- Marwood · E05012430
- Parish or community
- E04003105
- Westminster constituency
- North Devon · E14001387
- Output area
- E00101924
- Lower layer super output area
- North Devon 006C · E01020127
- Middle layer super output area
- North Devon 006 · E02004180
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
35 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Spring Wood, Guineaford, Barnstaple, EX31 4EA | 6 January 2026 | £382,000 |
| Meadow View, Guineaford, Barnstaple, EX31 4EA | 9 December 2025 | £630,000 |
| Oaklands, Guineaford, Barnstaple, EX31 4EA | 28 June 2024 | £489,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Marwood School
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Pilton Community College
Academy converter
- 3.5 km
Pathfield School
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Other theft 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 71
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- EX31 4 residents
- 7,324
39 female, 32 male
Age bands in EX31 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
1,245 residents
760 residents
1,774 residents
1,861 residents
1,510 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX31 4 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
- 10%
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
QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
6-7 QUEEN STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8HY
ODS code L83003
4.4 km
BRANNAM MEDICAL CENTRE
BRANNAMS SQUARE, LITCHDON STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8GP
ODS code L83073
4.7 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
- 0.0 miles
Guineaford Bridge
BCT · Guineaford
- 0.0 miles
Guineaford Bridge
BCT · Guineaford
- 0.4 miles
South View
BCT · Prixford
- 0.4 miles
South View
BCT · Prixford
- 0.9 miles
Whiddon Cross
BCT · Milltown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Devon 006C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,368 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
- 1
- 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
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Marwood School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
16 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.