Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Whimple Primary School is the nearest published school at 158 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX5 2YF
Whimple & Rockbeare · East Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whimple & Rockbeare
- Local authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East
- Postcode district
- EX5
- Postcode sector
- EX5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX5 2YF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2009
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX5
- Postcode sector
- EX5 2
- Latitude
- 50.766490
- Longitude
- -3.356404
- British National Grid easting
- 304,441
- British National Grid northing
- 97,201
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- East Devon · E07000040
- Electoral ward
- Whimple & Rockbeare · E05011809
- Parish or community
- E04012469
- Westminster constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East · E14001232
- Output area
- E00101051
- Lower layer super output area
- East Devon 004F · E01019962
- Middle layer super output area
- East Devon 004 · E02004132
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 EX5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 158 m
Whimple Primary School
Community school
- 3.3 km
Cranbrook Education Campus
Academy sponsor led
- 3.4 km
Rockbeare Church of England Primary School and Pre-School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 46
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Public order 4
- Drugs 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX5 2 residents
- 4,881
Age bands in EX5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
697 residents
456 residents
859 residents
1,576 residents
1,252 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
1
within 5 km
CRANBROOK MEDICAL PRACTICE
YOUNGHAYES CENTRE, YOUNGHAYES ROAD, CRANBROOK, EXETER, EX5 7DR
ODS code Y04662
4.8 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
- 0.0 miles
The Square
BCT · Whimple
- 0.0 miles
The Square
BCT · Whimple
- 0.1 miles
Whimple Rail Station
RLY · Whimple
- 0.1 miles
Whimple Rail Station
RSE · Whimple
- 0.2 miles
Station Road
BCT · Whimple
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Devon 004F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,734 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 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
46 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.