Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Running Deer School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX6 6QU
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 6QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX6
- Postcode sector
- EX6 6
- Latitude
- 50.703769
- Longitude
- -3.789763
- British National Grid easting
- 273,713
- British National Grid northing
- 90,877
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
Explore EX6
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Churchgate Cottages, Drewsteignton, Exeter, EX6 6QU | 29 September 2017 | £253,000 |
| 2, Churchgate Cottages, Drewsteignton, Exeter, EX6 6QU | 27 November 2013 | £232,250 |
| 2, Churchgate Cottages, Drewsteignton, Exeter, EX6 6QU | 1 December 2008 | £200,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.8 km
Running Deer School
Other independent special school
- 4.5 km
Cheriton Bishop Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.5 km
Chagford Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- EX6 6 residents
- 3,157
4 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EX6 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km
CHERITON BISHOP SURGERY
CHERITON BISHOP, CHERITON CROSS, EXETER, EX6 6JA
ODS code L83098
4.1 km
MORETONHAMPSTEAD HEALTH CENTRE
EMBLEFORD CRESCENT, MORETONHAMPSTEAD, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ13 8LW
ODS code L83049
4.8 km
CHAGFORD HEALTH CENTRE
CHAGFORD, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ13 8BW
ODS code L83082
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Square
BCT · Drewsteignton
- 0.1 miles
Square
BCT · Drewsteignton
- 0.7 miles
Castle Drogo Drive
BCT · Drewsteignton
- 0.7 miles
Castle Drogo Drive
BCT · Drewsteignton
- 1.0 miles
Barley Meadow Camping Site
BCT · Crockernwell
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
17 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.