Property market
The five-year median is £65,000 from 1 recorded sale in PL15 8BP. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cornwall is £277,801 in June 2026, up 3.7% year on year.
PL15 8BP
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL15 8BP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL15
- Postcode sector
- PL15 8
- Latitude
- 50.638771
- Longitude
- -4.360298
- British National Grid easting
- 233,199
- British National Grid northing
- 84,780
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
- E00095685
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 005E · E01018950
- 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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12a, Flat 2, The Walk, Launceston, PL15 8BP | 6 October 2022 | £65,000 |
| 2, The Walk, Launceston, PL15 8BP | 8 November 2017 | £158,500 |
| 12a, Flat 2, The Walk, Launceston, PL15 8BP | 4 April 2014 | £60,250 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 487 m
Windmill Hill Academy
Academy converter
- 730 m
St Josephs School
Other independent school
- 1.0 km
St Stephens Community Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 911
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 470
- Anti social behaviour 90
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Other theft 74
- Public order 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- PL15 8 residents
- 7,260
8 female, 12 male
Age bands in PL15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.9%
1,082 residents
703 residents
1,415 residents
2,196 residents
1,793 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL15 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
LAUNCESTON MEDICAL CENTRE
LANDLAKE ROAD, LAUNCESTON, PL15 9HH
ODS code L82030
1.2 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Museum
BCT · Launceston
- 0.1 miles
Wooda Road
BCT · Launceston
- 0.2 miles
Prouts Court Flats
BCT · Launceston
- 0.2 miles
Westgate Street
BCT · Launceston
- 0.2 miles
Westgate Street
BCT · Launceston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 005E, 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
9,033 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 0
- 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
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Windmill Hill Academy is the nearest published school at 487 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
911 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 470 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.