Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Windmill Hill Academy is the nearest published school at 524 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL15 7BE
Launceston South · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Launceston
- Ward
- Launceston South
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall
- Postcode district
- PL15
- Postcode sector
- PL15 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL15 7BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2006
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL15
- Postcode sector
- PL15 7
- Latitude
- 50.632239
- Longitude
- -4.366165
- British National Grid easting
- 232,761
- British National Grid northing
- 84,067
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Launceston South · E05013301
- Parish or community
- E04011466
- Westminster constituency
- North Cornwall · E14001385
- Output area
- E00095692
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 005A · E01018946
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 005 · E02003935
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 PL15
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Beechleigh House, Carboth Lane, Launceston, PL15 7BE | 20 November 2009 | £249,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 524 m
Windmill Hill Academy
Academy converter
- 570 m
St Catherine's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 739 m
Launceston College
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 900
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 462
- Anti social behaviour 89
- Criminal damage and arson 81
- Other theft 74
- Public order 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL15 7 residents
- 6,544
Age bands in PL15 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.8%
854 residents
496 residents
1,135 residents
1,986 residents
1,988 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
LAUNCESTON MEDICAL CENTRE
LANDLAKE ROAD, LAUNCESTON, PL15 9HH
ODS code L82030
669 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Western Road
BCT · Launceston
- 0.0 miles
Western Road
BCT · Launceston
- 0.1 miles
Trecarn Close
BCT · Launceston
- 0.1 miles
Trecarn Close
BCT · Launceston
- 0.1 miles
Woburn Road Junction
BCT · Launceston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 005A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,396 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
900 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 462 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.