Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 2 secondary schools. Thomas Hall School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX5 5EH
Exe Valley · East Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Exe Valley
- Local authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East
- Postcode district
- EX5
- Postcode sector
- EX5 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX5 5EH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX5
- Postcode sector
- EX5 5
- Latitude
- 50.751486
- Longitude
- -3.549348
- British National Grid easting
- 290,800
- British National Grid northing
- 95,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- East Devon · E07000040
- Electoral ward
- Exe Valley · E05011790
- Parish or community
- E04002997
- Westminster constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East · E14001232
- Output area
- E00100736
- Lower layer super output area
- East Devon 021A · E01019903
- Middle layer super output area
- East Devon 021 · E02007027
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
- 37
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.0 km
Thomas Hall School
Free schools
- 2.1 km
University of Exeter
Higher education institutions
- 2.5 km
Exwick Heights Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 128
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 59
- Other theft 14
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Bicycle theft 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX5 5 residents
- 3,078
Age bands in EX5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.1%
462 residents
271 residents
581 residents
864 residents
850 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
FOXHAYES PRACTICE
117 EXWICK ROAD, EXETER, EX4 2BH
ODS code Y00568
2.8 km
MOUNT PLEASANT HEALTH CENTRE
MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD, EXETER, EX4 7BW
ODS code L83066
3.1 km
INCLUSION HEALTH DEVON CIC
WAT TYLER HOUSE, KING WILLIAM STREET, EXETER, EX4 6PD
ODS code L83673
3.2 km
ST LEONARDS PRACTICE
ATHELSTAN ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1SB
ODS code L83042
3.6 km
SOUTHERNHAY HOUSE SURGERY
30 BARNFIELD ROAD, EXETER, EX1 1RX
ODS code L83058
3.7 km
ISCA MEDICAL PRACTICE
38 POLSLOE ROAD, EXETER, EX1 2DW
ODS code L83099
3.7 km
BARNFIELD HILL SURGERY
10-12 BARNFIELD HILL, EXETER, EX1 1SR
ODS code L83024
3.7 km
ST THOMAS MEDICAL GROUP
ST. THOMAS HEALTH CENTRE, COWICK STREET, ST. THOMAS, EXETER, EX4 1HJ
ODS code L83016
4.1 km
HEAVITREE PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83077
4.4 km
SOUTH LAWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEAVITREE HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LAWN TERRACE, EXETER, EX1 2RX
ODS code L83084
4.4 km
WHIPTON SURGERY
378 PINHOE ROAD, WHIPTON, EXETER, EX4 8EG
ODS code L83115
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chapel
BCT · Cowley
- 0.2 miles
Chapel
BCT · Cowley
- 0.3 miles
Bernaville Nurseries
BCT · Cowley
- 0.3 miles
Three Horse Shoes
BCT · Cowley
- 0.4 miles
Wrefords Link
BCT · Cowley Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Devon 021A, 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
18,350 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
128 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 59 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.