Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Appledore School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX39 4WA
Instow · North Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Instow
- Local authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon
- Postcode district
- EX39
- Postcode sector
- EX39 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX39 4WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 December 2002
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX39
- Postcode sector
- EX39 4
- Latitude
- 51.049048
- Longitude
- -4.178788
- British National Grid easting
- 247,378
- British National Grid northing
- 130,004
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- North Devon · E07000043
- Electoral ward
- Instow · E05012427
- Parish or community
- E04003096
- Westminster constituency
- North Devon · E14001387
- Output area
- E00101881
- Lower layer super output area
- North Devon 011D · E01020119
- Middle layer super output area
- North Devon 011 · E02004185
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Appledore School
Foundation school
- 1.4 km
Instow Community Primary and Pre-School
Foundation school
- 2.7 km
St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 116
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 53
- Criminal damage and arson 17
- Anti social behaviour 16
- Public order 12
- Other theft 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX39 4 residents
- 7,354
Age bands in EX39 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,280 residents
656 residents
1,641 residents
1,961 residents
1,557 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
NORTHAM SURGERY
BAY VIEW ROAD, NORTHAM, BIDEFORD, EX39 1AZ
ODS code L83050
2.8 km
WOODA SURGERY
CLARENCE WHARF, BARNSTAPLE STREET, BIDEFORD, EX39 4AU
ODS code L83106
3.8 km
BIDEFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
ABBOTSHAM ROAD, BIDEFORD, EX39 3AF
ODS code L83083
4.2 km
FREMINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
11-13 BEARDS ROAD, FREMINGTON, BARNSTAPLE, EX31 2PG
ODS code L83057
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Anstey Way
BCT · Instow
- 0.0 miles
Marine Parade
BCT · Instow
- 0.1 miles
Marine Parade
BCT · Instow
- 0.2 miles
Anstey Way
BCT · Instow
- 0.2 miles
The Quay
BCT · Instow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Devon 011D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,523 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
116 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 53 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.