Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. Eden Park Academy is the nearest published school at 498 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX32 8PW
Barnstaple with Westacott · North Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon
- Postcode district
- EX32
- Postcode sector
- EX32 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX32 8PW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX32
- Postcode sector
- EX32 8
- Latitude
- 51.075928
- Longitude
- -4.032691
- British National Grid easting
- 257,700
- British National Grid northing
- 132,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Devon · E07000043
- Electoral ward
- Barnstaple with Westacott · E05012414
- Parish or community
- E04012969
- Westminster constituency
- North Devon · E14001387
- Output area
- E00101801
- Lower layer super output area
- North Devon 010C · E01020104
- Middle layer super output area
- North Devon 010 · E02004184
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 EX32
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 498 m
Eden Park Academy
Academy converter
- 648 m
Orchard Vale Community School
Academy converter
- 728 m
The Lampard Community School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,089
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 525
- Anti social behaviour 114
- Criminal damage and arson 103
- Public order 85
- Shoplifting 63
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX32 8 residents
- 6,536
Age bands in EX32 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,058 residents
700 residents
1,506 residents
1,636 residents
1,124 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
LITCHDON MEDICAL CENTRE
LANDKEY ROAD, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 9LL
ODS code L83035
949 m
BRANNAM MEDICAL CENTRE
BRANNAMS SQUARE, LITCHDON STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8GP
ODS code L83073
1.7 km
QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
6-7 QUEEN STREET, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 8HY
ODS code L83003
1.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Woolbarn Lawn
BCT · Westacott
- 0.0 miles
Apple Tree Close
BCT · Westacott
- 0.1 miles
Otter Way
BCT · Westacott
- 0.1 miles
Lane End Park
BCT · Westacott
- 0.1 miles
Otter Way
BCT · Westacott
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Devon 010C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,091 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
1,089 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 525 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.