PL15 8FJ

Launceston North & North Petherwin · Cornwall · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Launceston North & North Petherwin
Local authority: Cornwall
Constituency: North Cornwall
Postcode district: PL15
Postcode sector: PL15 8

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
PL15 8NB	616 m
PL15 8NA	776 m
PL15 8NE	869 m
PL15 8LT	982 m
PL15 8LZ	1.3 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: PL15 8FJ
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 June 2019
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: PL
Postcode district: PL15
Postcode sector: PL15 8
Latitude: 50.699037
Longitude: -4.464412
British National Grid easting: 226,061
British National Grid northing: 91,720

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South West · E12000009
Local authority district: Cornwall · E06000052
Electoral ward: Launceston North & North Petherwin · E05013844
Parish or community: E04011497
Westminster constituency: North Cornwall · E14001385
Output area: E00095708
Lower layer super output area: Cornwall 004B · E01018953
Middle layer super output area: Cornwall 004 · E02003934

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

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

North Petherwin School

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1.0 km

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
PL15 8 residents: 7,260

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%

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+: 0%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 0%
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

Penscombe

BCT · Billacott
0.6 miles
Penscombe

BCT · Billacott
0.6 miles
Post Box

BCT · Maxworthy
0.9 miles
Post Box

BCT · Maxworthy
0.9 miles
Caudworthy Bridge

BCT · Caudworthy
1.1 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 004B, 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

10,514 of 33,755

Income: 6 of 10
Employment: 5 of 10
Education and skills: 5 of 10
Health and disability: 7 of 10
Crime: 9 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: 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

1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. North Petherwin School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.

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