Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Lifton Community Academy is the nearest published school at 658 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL16 0EZ
Tamarside · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tamarside
- Local authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Postcode district
- PL16
- Postcode sector
- PL16 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL16 0EZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL16
- Postcode sector
- PL16 0
- Latitude
- 50.643772
- Longitude
- -4.290020
- British National Grid easting
- 238,185
- British National Grid northing
- 85,180
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- West Devon · E07000047
- Electoral ward
- Tamarside · E05010564
- Parish or community
- E04003332
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00103055
- Lower layer super output area
- West Devon 004D · E01020340
- Middle layer super output area
- West Devon 004 · E02004232
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 PL16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 658 m
Lifton Community Academy
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- 4.8 km
Launceston Primary School
Free schools
- 5.0 km
Launceston College
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 58
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 20
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Other theft 7
- Public order 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL16 0 residents
- 2,075
Age bands in PL16 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
296 residents
215 residents
405 residents
697 residents
563 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Arundell Arms Hotel
BCT · Lifton
- 0.3 miles
Arundell Arms Hotel
BCT · Lifton
- 0.7 miles
Liftondown Cross
BCT · Liftondown
- 0.7 miles
Liftondown Cross
BCT · Liftondown
- 0.8 miles
Fox and Grapes
BCT · Lifton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Devon 004D, 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
13,027 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
58 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 20 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.