Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Orchard Manor School is the nearest published school at 251 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX7 9SW
Dawlish South West · Teignbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dawlish South West
- Local authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot
- Postcode district
- EX7
- Postcode sector
- EX7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX7 9SW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX7
- Postcode sector
- EX7 9
- Latitude
- 50.574353
- Longitude
- -3.477149
- British National Grid easting
- 295,500
- British National Grid northing
- 76,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Teignbridge · E07000045
- Electoral ward
- Dawlish South West · E05011902
- Parish or community
- E04003204
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Abbot · E14001381
- Output area
- E00102490
- Lower layer super output area
- Teignbridge 006C · E01020234
- Middle layer super output area
- Teignbridge 006 · E02004206
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 EX7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 251 m
Orchard Manor School
Academy special sponsor led
- 482 m
Westcliff Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Education and Care (Devon) Ltd At 7-9 Oak Park Villas
Miscellaneous
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 728
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 321
- Shoplifting 107
- Criminal damage and arson 73
- Anti social behaviour 61
- Public order 50
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX7 9 residents
- 6,535
Age bands in EX7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 33%
751 residents
543 residents
1,199 residents
1,979 residents
2,199 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
BARTON SURGERY
THE BARTON SURGERY, BARTON TERRACE, DAWLISH, EX7 9QH
ODS code L83005
654 m
CHANNEL VIEW MEDICAL GROUP
3 COURTENAY PLACE, TEIGNMOUTH, TQ14 8AY
ODS code L83120
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
North Lodge Close
BCT · Dawlish
- 0.1 miles
Underwood Close
BCT · Dawlish
- 0.2 miles
Cemetery
BCT · Dawlish
- 0.2 miles
Coronation Avenue
BCT · Dawlish
- 0.2 miles
Oak Hill
BCT · Dawlish
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Teignbridge 006C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,310 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
728 published events cover 12 months, averaging 60.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 321 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.