PL15 8LU

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 8LS	1.1 km
PL15 8RX	1.4 km
PL15 8RY	1.6 km
PL15 8LT	1.6 km
PL15 8RZ	1.6 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: PL15 8LU
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: PL
Postcode district: PL15
Postcode sector: PL15 8
Latitude: 50.675876
Longitude: -4.466950
British National Grid easting: 225,796
British National Grid northing: 89,151

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: 2
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

North Petherwin School

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1.9 km
Egloskerry Primary School

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2.8 km

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 2
Postcode households: 3
Residents per household: 0.7
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%

This postcode contained 0% 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: 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

Braywood Farm

BCT · Troswell
0.9 miles
Braywood Farm

BCT · Troswell
0.9 miles
Treludick Turn

BCT · Tregeare
1.0 miles
Treludick Turn

BCT · Tregeare
1.0 miles
Tregeare Turn

BCT · Trebeath
1.0 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

2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. North Petherwin School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.

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