Property market
The five-year median is £480,000 from 1 recorded sale in EX31 4LT. 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 4LT
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 4LT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX31
- Postcode sector
- EX31 4
- Latitude
- 51.149340
- Longitude
- -4.009906
- British National Grid easting
- 259,519
- British National Grid northing
- 140,819
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Devon · E07000043
- Electoral ward
- Marwood · E05012430
- Parish or community
- E04003087
- Westminster constituency
- North Devon · E14001387
- Output area
- E00101921
- 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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lays Cottage, East Down, Barnstaple, EX31 4LT | 19 January 2026 | £480,000 |
| Lays Cottage, East Down, Barnstaple, EX31 4LT | 8 February 2019 | £390,000 |
| Leys Cottage, East Down, Barnstaple, EX31 4LT | 4 July 2016 | £360,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.6 km
Kentisbury Primary School
Community school
- 3.6 km
Shirwell Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.9 km
Marwood School
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- EX31 4 residents
- 7,324
11 female, 13 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 0.3% 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+
- 60%
- 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
- 80%
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
- 0.5 miles
Brockham Bridge
BCT · Arlington
- 0.5 miles
Brockham Bridge
BCT · Arlington
- 0.9 miles
Woolley Woods
BCT · Arlington
- 0.9 miles
Arlington Court Turn
BCT · Arlington Beccott
- 0.9 miles
Arlington Court Turn
BCT · Arlington Beccott
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
- 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
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Kentisbury Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.