Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Windmill Hill Academy is the nearest published school at 195 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL15 9UF
Launceston South · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Launceston South
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall
- Postcode district
- PL15
- Postcode sector
- PL15 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL15 9UF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL15
- Postcode sector
- PL15 9
- Latitude
- 50.633671
- Longitude
- -4.362093
- British National Grid easting
- 233,054
- British National Grid northing
- 84,217
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
- E00095690
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 195 m
Windmill Hill Academy
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- 604 m
Launceston College
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- 899 m
St Catherine's CofE Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 945
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 491
- Anti social behaviour 91
- Criminal damage and arson 87
- Other theft 76
- Public order 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL15 9 residents
- 7,599
Age bands in PL15 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
1,397 residents
697 residents
1,779 residents
2,088 residents
1,682 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
684 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
- 0.1 miles
Westgate Street
BCT · Launceston
- 0.1 miles
Westgate Street
BCT · Launceston
- 0.1 miles
Westgate Street
BCT · Launceston
- 0.2 miles
Western Road
BCT · Launceston
- 0.2 miles
Western Road
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
945 published events cover 12 months, averaging 78.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 491 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.