Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. St James School is the nearest published school at 118 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX4 8NJ
Mincinglake and Whipton · Exeter · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX4 8NJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1981
- Terminated
- 1 March 2015
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX4
- Postcode sector
- EX4 8
- Latitude
- 50.738803
- Longitude
- -3.493727
- British National Grid easting
- 294,695
- British National Grid northing
- 94,309
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Exeter · E07000041
- Electoral ward
- Mincinglake and Whipton · E05011015
- Parish or community
- E43000052
- Westminster constituency
- Exeter · E14001231
- Output area
- E00101187
- Lower layer super output area
- Exeter 002B · E01019991
- Middle layer super output area
- Exeter 002 · E02004150
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 EX4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 118 m
St James School
Academy converter
- 248 m
Willowbrook School
Academy sponsor led
- 802 m
Vranch House School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,984
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,024
- Anti social behaviour 224
- Criminal damage and arson 163
- Public order 125
- Other theft 100
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX4 8 residents
- 7,601
Age bands in EX4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
1,390 residents
790 residents
1,930 residents
1,835 residents
1,423 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.
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.
GP practices
14
within 5 km straight-line
WHIPTON SURGERY
378 PINHOE ROAD, WHIPTON, EXETER, EX4 8EG
ODS code L83115
756 m
MOUNT PLEASANT HEALTH CENTRE
MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD, EXETER, EX4 7BW
ODS code L83066
1.7 km
PINHOE SURGERY
PINN LANE, PINHOE, EXETER, EX1 3SY
ODS code L83040
1.7 km
ISCA MEDICAL PRACTICE
38 POLSLOE ROAD, EXETER, EX1 2DW
ODS code L83099
1.8 km
HILL BARTON SURGERY
1 LOWER HILL BARTON ROAD, EXETER, EX1 3EN
ODS code L83143
1.9 km
HEAVITREE PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83077
1.9 km
SOUTH LAWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83084
1.9 km
INCLUSION HEALTH DEVON CIC
WAT TYLER HOUSE, KING WILLIAM STREET, EXETER, EX4 6PD
ODS code L83673
2.5 km
BARNFIELD HILL SURGERY
10-12 BARNFIELD HILL, EXETER, EX1 1SR
ODS code L83024
2.6 km
ST LEONARDS PRACTICE
ATHELSTAN ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1SB
ODS code L83042
2.6 km
SOUTHERNHAY HOUSE SURGERY
30 BARNFIELD ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1RX
ODS code L83058
2.8 km
WONFORD GREEN SURGERY
BURNTHOUSE LANE, EXETER, EX2 6NF
ODS code L83655
2.8 km
FOXHAYES PRACTICE
117 EXWICK ROAD, EXETER, EX4 2BH
ODS code Y00568
4.2 km
ST THOMAS MEDICAL GROUP
ST. THOMAS HEALTH CENTRE, COWICK STREET, ST. THOMAS, EXETER, EX4 1HJ
ODS code L83016
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St James School
BCT · Whipton
- 0.0 miles
St James School
BCT · Whipton
- 0.1 miles
Pinwood Lane
BCT · Beacon Heath
- 0.1 miles
Arena Park
BCT · Beacon Heath
- 0.1 miles
Iolanthe Drive
BCT · Beacon Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Exeter 002B, 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
10,274 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,984 published events cover 12 months, averaging 165.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,024 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.