Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Cockwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 776 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX6 8RY
Dawlish North East · Teignbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dawlish North East
- Local authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot
- Postcode district
- EX6
- Postcode sector
- EX6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX6 8RY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX6
- Postcode sector
- EX6 8
- Latitude
- 50.608887
- Longitude
- -3.448551
- British National Grid easting
- 297,600
- British National Grid northing
- 79,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Teignbridge · E07000045
- Electoral ward
- Dawlish North East · E05011901
- Parish or community
- E04003204
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Abbot · E14001381
- Output area
- E00102452
- Lower layer super output area
- Teignbridge 005E · E01034165
- Middle layer super output area
- Teignbridge 005 · E02004205
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
- 19
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 776 m
Cockwood Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Starcross Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
Gatehouse Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 358
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 182
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Other theft 29
- Shoplifting 28
- Public order 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX6 8 residents
- 7,750
Age bands in EX6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.4%
1,326 residents
640 residents
1,836 residents
2,204 residents
1,943 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
HALDON HOUSE SURGERY
37-41 IMPERIAL ROAD, EXMOUTH, EX8 1DQ
ODS code L83136
2.6 km
IMPERIAL SURGERY
49 IMPERIAL ROAD, EXMOUTH, EX8 1DQ
ODS code L83628
2.6 km
ROLLE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
EXMOUTH HEALTH CENTRE, CLAREMONT GROVE, EXMOUTH, EX8 2JF
ODS code L83056
3.6 km
BARTON SURGERY
THE BARTON SURGERY, BARTON TERRACE, DAWLISH, EX7 9QH
ODS code L83005
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bottom of Orchard Lane
BCT · Eastdon
- 0.1 miles
Bottom of Orchard Lane
BCT · Eastdon
- 0.3 miles
Cofton Court
BCT · Cockwood
- 0.3 miles
Cofton Court
BCT · Cockwood
- 0.4 miles
Orchard Lane
BCT · Cofton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Teignbridge 005E, 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
13,207 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
358 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 182 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.