Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Running Deer School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX6 6PS
Drewsteignton · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Exeter
- Ward
- Drewsteignton
- Local authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon
- Postcode district
- EX6
- Postcode sector
- EX6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX6 6PS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX6
- Postcode sector
- EX6 6
- Latitude
- 50.702049
- Longitude
- -3.764532
- British National Grid easting
- 275,490
- British National Grid northing
- 90,643
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- West Devon · E07000047
- Electoral ward
- Drewsteignton · E05010556
- Parish or community
- E04003317
- Westminster constituency
- Central Devon · E14001155
- Output area
- E00102940
- Lower layer super output area
- West Devon 003B · E01020319
- Middle layer super output area
- West Devon 003 · E02004231
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
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Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Broadmoor, Drewsteignton, Exeter, EX6 6PS | 16 October 2017 | £425,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.1 km
Running Deer School
Other independent special school
- 3.4 km
Cheriton Bishop Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.3 km
Moretonhampstead Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Public order 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX6 6 residents
- 3,157
Age bands in EX6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 34%
384 residents
224 residents
474 residents
883 residents
1,011 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
2
within 5 km
CHERITON BISHOP SURGERY
CHERITON BISHOP, CHERITON CROSS, EXETER, EX6 6JA
ODS code L83098
3.0 km
MORETONHAMPSTEAD HEALTH CENTRE
EMBLEFORD CRESCENT, MORETONHAMPSTEAD, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ13 8LW
ODS code L83049
4.3 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
Shelter
BCT · Crockernwell
- 1.1 miles
Shelter
BCT · Crockernwell
- 1.1 miles
Crockernwell Village
BCT · Crockernwell
- 1.2 miles
Square
BCT · Drewsteignton
- 1.2 miles
Square
BCT · Drewsteignton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Devon 003B, 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
12,050 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 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.
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
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.