Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Kingsley School Devon is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX39 3PR
Northam · Torridge · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX39 3PR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX39
- Postcode sector
- EX39 3
- Latitude
- 51.031407
- Longitude
- -4.226211
- British National Grid easting
- 243,995
- British National Grid northing
- 128,142
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torridge · E07000046
- Electoral ward
- Northam · E05011927
- Parish or community
- E04012900
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00102824
- Lower layer super output area
- Torridge 002A · E01020298
- Middle layer super output area
- Torridge 002 · E02004221
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Brookfield, Silford Road, Northam, Bideford, EX39 3PR | 28 May 2021 | £533,500 |
| Lenwood Cottage, Silford Road, Northam, Bideford, EX39 3PR | 27 March 2015 | £200,000 |
| Brookfield, Silford Road, Northam, Bideford, EX39 3PR | 16 July 2010 | £495,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Kingsley School Devon
Other independent school
- 1.5 km
St Margaret's Church of England Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
St Mary's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 573
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 300
- Anti social behaviour 74
- Criminal damage and arson 57
- Public order 32
- Other theft 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- EX39 3 residents
- 10,711
8 female, 6 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 0.1% 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+
- 66.7%
- 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
- 0%
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
NORTHAM SURGERY
BAY VIEW ROAD, NORTHAM, BIDEFORD, EX39 1AZ
ODS code L83050
1.1 km
BIDEFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
ABBOTSHAM ROAD, BIDEFORD, EX39 3AF
ODS code L83083
1.9 km
WOODA SURGERY
CLARENCE WHARF, BARNSTAPLE STREET, BIDEFORD, EX39 4AU
ODS code L83106
2.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Buckleigh Road
BCT · Buckleigh
- 0.4 miles
Buckleigh Road
BCT · Buckleigh
- 0.5 miles
Kipling Fields
BCT · Westward Ho!
- 0.5 miles
Kipling Fields
BCT · Westward Ho!
- 0.5 miles
Lundy View
BCT · Northam
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torridge 002A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,134 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Recorded crime
573 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 300 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.