Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Great Torrington School is the nearest published school at 273 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX38 7DU
Great Torrington · Torridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Great Torrington
- Local authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Postcode district
- EX38
- Postcode sector
- EX38 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX38 7DU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX38
- Postcode sector
- EX38 7
- Latitude
- 50.957250
- Longitude
- -4.131457
- British National Grid easting
- 250,400
- British National Grid northing
- 119,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torridge · E07000046
- Electoral ward
- Great Torrington · E05011922
- Parish or community
- E04003263
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00102859
- Lower layer super output area
- Torridge 006D · E01020307
- Middle layer super output area
- Torridge 006 · E02004225
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 EX38
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 273 m
Great Torrington School
Academy converter
- 686 m
Great Torrington Bluecoat Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.8 km
Monkleigh Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 318
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 166
- Shoplifting 36
- Criminal damage and arson 33
- Anti social behaviour 29
- Public order 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX38 7 residents
- 4,454
Age bands in EX38 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.4%
761 residents
440 residents
940 residents
1,216 residents
1,082 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
TORRINGTON HEALTH CENTRE
NEW ROAD, TORRINGTON, EX38 8EL
ODS code L83026
837 m
CASTLE GARDENS SURGERY
CASTLE HILL GARDENS, TORRINGTON, EX38 8EU
ODS code L83105
870 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Dartington Fields
BCT · Great Torrington
- 0.0 miles
Dartington Fields
BCT · Great Torrington
- 0.2 miles
Police House
BCT · Great Torrington
- 0.2 miles
Torrington School
BCT · Great Torrington
- 0.2 miles
Burwood Estate
BCT · Great Torrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torridge 006D, 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
10,169 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
318 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 166 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.