Property market
The five-year median is £480,000 from 1 recorded sale in EX38 8JU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Torridge is £260,783 in June 2026, up 3.9% year on year.
EX38 8JU
Monkleigh & Putford · Torridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Torrington
- Ward
- Monkleigh & Putford
- Local authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Postcode district
- EX38
- Postcode sector
- EX38 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX38 8JU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX38
- Postcode sector
- EX38 8
- Latitude
- 50.931959
- Longitude
- -4.247560
- British National Grid easting
- 242,161
- British National Grid northing
- 117,130
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torridge · E07000046
- Electoral ward
- Monkleigh & Putford · E05011926
- Parish or community
- E04003253
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00102882
- Lower layer super output area
- Torridge 008E · E01020309
- Middle layer super output area
- Torridge 008 · E02004227
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hoarstone Farm, Frithelstock, Torrington, EX38 8JU | 28 February 2025 | £480,000 |
| Hoarstone Cottage, Frithelstock, Torrington, EX38 8JU | 3 December 2013 | £240,000 |
| Hoarstone Cottage, Frithelstock, Torrington, EX38 8JU | 19 July 1995 | £50,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.3 km
Langtree Community School and Nursery Unit
Community school
- 3.5 km
Buckland Brewer Primary School
Foundation school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- EX38 8 residents
- 3,967
1 female, 3 male
Age bands in EX38 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 31%
458 residents
344 residents
681 residents
1,166 residents
1,188 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX38 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
- 1.4 miles
The Union Inn
BCT · Stibb Cross
- 1.4 miles
The Union Inn
BCT · Stibb Cross
- 1.4 miles
Stibb Cross
BCT · Stibb Cross
- 1.4 miles
Stibb Cross
BCT · Stibb Cross
- 1.4 miles
The Old Union Inn
BCT · Stibb Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torridge 008E, 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
12,205 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 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
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Langtree Community School and Nursery Unit is the nearest published school at 2.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.