Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. Marpool Primary School is the nearest published school at 219 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EX8 3QY
Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh · East Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East
- Postcode district
- EX8
- Postcode sector
- EX8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EX8 3QY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- EX
- Postcode district
- EX8
- Postcode sector
- EX8 3
- Latitude
- 50.627223
- Longitude
- -3.396476
- British National Grid easting
- 301,323
- British National Grid northing
- 81,768
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- East Devon · E07000040
- Electoral ward
- Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh · E05011795
- Parish or community
- E04003003
- Westminster constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East · E14001232
- Output area
- E00100844
- Lower layer super output area
- East Devon 018C · E01019922
- Middle layer super output area
- East Devon 018 · E02004146
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 EX8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 219 m
Marpool Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 358 m
Withycombe Raleigh Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 690 m
Exmouth Community College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,728
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 801
- Criminal damage and arson 193
- Anti social behaviour 186
- Shoplifting 118
- Other theft 110
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EX8 3 residents
- 5,890
Age bands in EX8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.1%
820 residents
530 residents
980 residents
1,584 residents
1,937 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
ROLLE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
EXMOUTH HEALTH CENTRE, CLAREMONT GROVE, EXMOUTH, EX8 2JF
ODS code L83056
766 m
HALDON HOUSE SURGERY
37-41 IMPERIAL ROAD, EXMOUTH, EX8 1DQ
ODS code L83136
1.6 km
IMPERIAL SURGERY
49 IMPERIAL ROAD, EXMOUTH, EX8 1DQ
ODS code L83628
1.6 km
BUDLEIGH SALTERTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
BUDLEIGH HEALTH CENTRE, 1 THE LAWN, BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, EX9 6LS
ODS code L83011
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Green Close
BCT · Withycombe Raleigh
- 0.1 miles
Green Close
BCT · Withycombe Raleigh
- 0.1 miles
Colleton Way
BCT · Withycombe Raleigh
- 0.1 miles
Kay Close
BCT · Withycombe Raleigh
- 0.1 miles
Kay Close
BCT · Withycombe Raleigh
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Devon 018C, 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
10,834 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
1,728 published events cover 12 months, averaging 144 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 801 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.