Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Quethiock CofE School is the nearest published school at 2.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL12 5AU
Lynher · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lynher
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall
- Postcode district
- PL12
- Postcode sector
- PL12 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL12 5AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2013
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL12
- Postcode sector
- PL12 5
- Latitude
- 50.462851
- Longitude
- -4.332842
- British National Grid easting
- 234,525
- British National Grid northing
- 65,160
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Lynher · E05013309
- Parish or community
- E04011515
- Westminster constituency
- South East Cornwall · E14001486
- Output area
- E00094833
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 023D · E01018785
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 023 · E02003898
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 PL12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.2 km
Quethiock CofE School
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- 4.4 km
St Mellion Church of England Primary School
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- 4.5 km
Callington Primary School
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL12 5 residents
- 2,597
Age bands in PL12 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.5%
327 residents
261 residents
442 residents
757 residents
643 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
TAMAR VALLEY HEALTH
THE HEALTH CENTRE, HAYE ROAD, CALLINGTON, PL17 7AW
ODS code L82012
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 1.3 miles
Church Hall
BCT · Blunts
- 1.4 miles
Tideford Turn
BCT · Blunts
- 1.4 miles
The Weary Friar
BCT · Pillaton
- 1.4 miles
Weary Friar Hotel
BCT · Pillaton
- 1.8 miles
Telephone Box
BCT · Newbridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 023D, 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
12,265 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.