Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Running Deer School is the nearest published school at 2.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX6 6RA
Drewsteignton · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 6RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX6
- Postcode sector
- EX6 6
- Latitude
- 50.704719
- Longitude
- -3.799897
- British National Grid easting
- 273,000
- British National Grid northing
- 91,000
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.3 km
Running Deer School
Other independent special school
- 4.1 km
Chagford Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 5.0 km
Cheriton Bishop Community Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Anti social behaviour 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 straight-line
CHAGFORD HEALTH CENTRE
CHAGFORD, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ13 8BW
ODS code L83082
4.5 km
CHERITON BISHOP SURGERY
CHERITON BISHOP, CHERITON CROSS, EXETER, EX6 6JA
ODS code L83098
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Castle Drogo Drive
BCT · Drewsteignton
- 0.3 miles
Castle Drogo Drive
BCT · Drewsteignton
- 0.4 miles
Square
BCT · Drewsteignton
- 0.4 miles
Square
BCT · Drewsteignton
- 0.9 miles
Ford House Turn
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
14 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.