Property market
The five-year median is £112,750 from 1 recorded sale in EX39 3BQ. 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.
EX39 3BQ
Bideford West · Torridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bideford
- Ward
- Bideford West
- Local authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Postcode district
- EX39
- Postcode sector
- EX39 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX39 3BQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX39
- Postcode sector
- EX39 3
- Latitude
- 51.015314
- Longitude
- -4.215045
- British National Grid easting
- 244,724
- British National Grid northing
- 126,329
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torridge · E07000046
- Electoral ward
- Bideford West · E05011920
- Parish or community
- E04012901
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00102745
- Lower layer super output area
- Torridge 004E · E01020284
- Middle layer super output area
- Torridge 004 · E02004223
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 EX39
Property
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Geneva Court, 37, Metherell Road, Bideford, EX39 3BQ | 26 November 2021 | £112,750 |
| Geneva Court, 42, Metherell Road, Bideford, EX39 3BQ | 19 March 2021 | £47,500 |
| Geneva Court, 38, Metherell Road, Bideford, EX39 3BQ | 17 November 2020 | £90,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 352 m
West Croft School
Community school
- 359 m
Bideford College
Academy sponsor led
- 653 m
Kingsley School Devon
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,372
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 588
- Anti social behaviour 186
- Shoplifting 139
- Criminal damage and arson 126
- Public order 97
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 108
- Postcode households
- 47
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- EX39 3 residents
- 10,711
56 female, 52 male
Age bands in EX39 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 24%
1,803 residents
1,070 residents
2,324 residents
3,065 residents
2,606 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX39 3 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
- 85.7%
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
BIDEFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
ABBOTSHAM ROAD, BIDEFORD, EX39 3AF
ODS code L83083
310 m
WOODA SURGERY
CLARENCE WHARF, BARNSTAPLE STREET, BIDEFORD, EX39 4AU
ODS code L83106
1.0 km
NORTHAM SURGERY
BAY VIEW ROAD, NORTHAM, BIDEFORD, EX39 1AZ
ODS code L83050
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Clovelly Road
BCT · Bideford
- 0.1 miles
Marland Terrace
BCT · Bideford
- 0.1 miles
Clovelly Road
BCT · Bideford
- 0.1 miles
First In Last Out
BCT · Bideford
- 0.1 miles
Capern Road
BCT · Bideford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torridge 004E, 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
10,522 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- 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
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. West Croft School is the nearest published school at 352 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,372 published events cover 12 months, averaging 114.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 588 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.