Property market
The five-year median is £355,000 from 1 recorded sale in EX31 4EQ. 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 4EQ
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 4EQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 4
- Latitude
- 51.116570
- Longitude
- -4.096316
- British National Grid easting
- 253,372
- British National Grid northing
- 137,344
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
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oakford Meadow, Marwood, Barnstaple, EX31 4EQ | 31 January 2025 | £355,000 |
| Oakford Meadow, Marwood, Barnstaple, EX31 4EQ | 11 November 2020 | £250,000 |
| Lee Cottages, 1, Marwood, Barnstaple, EX31 4EQ | 29 September 2016 | £195,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.2 km
Marwood School
Academy converter
- 3.7 km
Pilton Community College
Academy converter
- 3.9 km
Pathfield School
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- EX31 4 residents
- 7,324
17 female, 14 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 0.4% 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+
- 0%
- 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
- 9.1%
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
CAEN MEDICAL CENTRE
CAEN STREET, BRAUNTON, EX33 1LR
ODS code L83097
4.8 km
QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
6-7 QUEEN STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8HY
ODS code L83003
4.9 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
- 1.0 miles
Guineaford Bridge
BCT · Guineaford
- 1.0 miles
Guineaford Bridge
BCT · Guineaford
- 1.0 miles
South View
BCT · Prixford
- 1.0 miles
South View
BCT · Prixford
- 1.3 miles
Meadowside
BCT · Ashford
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
- 2
- 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
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Marwood School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.