Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Southmead School is the nearest published school at 2.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX31 4EP
Heanton Punchardon · North Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Heanton Punchardon
- Local authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX31 4EP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 4
- Latitude
- 51.105141
- Longitude
- -4.109684
- British National Grid easting
- 252,400
- British National Grid northing
- 136,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Devon · E07000043
- Electoral ward
- Heanton Punchardon · E05012424
- Parish or community
- E04003094
- Westminster constituency
- North Devon · E14001387
- Output area
- E00101838
- Lower layer super output area
- North Devon 005E · E01020110
- Middle layer super output area
- North Devon 005 · E02004179
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
- 15
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 3.2 km
Southmead School
Foundation school
- 3.3 km
Braunton Academy
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Pilton Community College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 21
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Other crime 2
- Other theft 2
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX31 4 residents
- 7,324
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
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
CAEN MEDICAL CENTRE
CAEN STREET, BRAUNTON, EX33 1LR
ODS code L83097
3.7 km
FREMINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
11-13 BEARDS ROAD, FREMINGTON, BARNSTAPLE, EX31 2PG
ODS code L83057
4.0 km
QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
6-7 QUEEN STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8HY
ODS code L83003
4.6 km
BRANNAM MEDICAL CENTRE
BRANNAMS SQUARE, LITCHDON STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8GP
ODS code L83073
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Meadowside
BCT · Ashford
- 0.7 miles
Meadowside
BCT · Ashford
- 0.7 miles
Limekiln Lane
BCT · Ashford
- 0.8 miles
Garden Centre
BCT · Ashford
- 0.8 miles
Garden Centre
BCT · Ashford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Devon 005E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,225 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
21 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.