EX31 4LN

Bratton Fleming · North Devon · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Bratton Fleming
Local authority: North Devon
Constituency: North Devon
Postcode district: EX31
Postcode sector: EX31 4

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
EX31 4LR	607 m
EX31 4LW	646 m
EX31 4LP	890 m
EX31 4LS	923 m
EX31 4LX	931 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: EX31 4LN
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: EX
Postcode district: EX31
Postcode sector: EX31 4
Latitude: 51.152298
Longitude: -3.990501
British National Grid easting: 260,885
British National Grid northing: 141,111

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South West · E12000009
Local authority district: North Devon · E07000043
Electoral ward: Bratton Fleming · E05012417
Parish or community: E04003066
Westminster constituency: North Devon · E14001387
Output area: E00101723
Lower layer super output area: North Devon 006A · E01020088
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

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 3
Primary: 3
Secondary: 0

Kentisbury Primary School

Community school
2.5 km
Shirwell Community Primary School

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4.3 km
Bratton Fleming Community Primary School

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4.8 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 2
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Burglary 2

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 6
Postcode households: 4
Residents per household: 1.5
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%

This postcode contained 0.1% 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: 0%

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

Arlington Court Turn

BCT · Arlington Beccott
0.1 miles
Arlington Court Turn

BCT · Arlington Beccott
0.1 miles
Brockham Bridge

BCT · Arlington
0.4 miles
Brockham Bridge

BCT · Arlington
0.4 miles
Ford Cross

BCT · Kentisbury Ford
1.1 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Devon 006A, 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

12,223 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 6 of 10
Education and skills: 7 of 10
Health and disability: 7 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: 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

3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Kentisbury Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.