PL12 5BZ

Rame Peninsula & St Germans · Cornwall · England

Updated September 2026

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Ward: Rame Peninsula & St Germans
Local authority: Cornwall
Constituency: South East Cornwall
Postcode district: PL12
Postcode sector: PL12 5

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
PL12 5DB	518 m
PL12 5BY	631 m
PL12 5DD	708 m
PL12 5DE	916 m
PL12 5BX	1.3 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: PL12 5BZ
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: PL
Postcode district: PL12
Postcode sector: PL12 5
Latitude: 50.416146
Longitude: -4.378832
British National Grid easting: 231,095
British National Grid northing: 60,071

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South West · E12000009
Local authority district: Cornwall · E06000052
Electoral ward: Rame Peninsula & St Germans · E05013327
Parish or community: E04011550
Westminster constituency: South East Cornwall · E14001486
Output area: E00094836
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

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Open schools: 3
Primary: 3
Secondary: 0

Menheniot Primary School

Foundation school
3.3 km
Trenode CofE VA Primary Academy

Academy sponsor led
3.5 km
Quethiock CofE School

Academy converter
4.7 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 3
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 3

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 5
Postcode households: 1
Residents per household: 5.0
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%

This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL12 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

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.

Fixed broadband coverage

Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.

Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+: 66.7%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 66.7%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 66.7%
Gigabit-capable: 66.7%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 66.7%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 0%

Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Methodist Church

BCT · Bethany
0.7 miles
Methodist Church

BCT · Bethany
0.7 miles
The Farm House

BCT · Bethany
0.9 miles
The Farm House

BCT · Bethany
0.9 miles
Shelter

BCT · Doddycross
1.5 miles

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.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 0
Medium risk addresses: 0
Low risk addresses: 1
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

Schools

3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Menheniot Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.1 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.