Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Lowen School is the nearest published school at 664 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL18 9LG
Bere Ferrers · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bere Ferrers
- Local authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Postcode district
- PL18
- Postcode sector
- PL18 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL18 9LG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2003
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL18
- Postcode sector
- PL18 9
- Latitude
- 50.529144
- Longitude
- -4.209678
- British National Grid easting
- 243,485
- British National Grid northing
- 72,263
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- West Devon · E07000047
- Electoral ward
- Bere Ferrers · E05010550
- Parish or community
- E04003322
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00103006
- Lower layer super output area
- West Devon 004C · E01020331
- 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 PL18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 664 m
The Lowen School
Other independent special school
- 695 m
Copper Valley Junior Academy
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Gulworthy Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 80
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 47
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Other theft 6
- Public order 5
- Anti social behaviour 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL18 9 residents
- 5,259
Age bands in PL18 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.3%
710 residents
399 residents
968 residents
1,630 residents
1,460 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
ABBEY SURGERY
28 PLYMOUTH ROAD, TAVISTOCK, PL19 8BU
ODS code L83101
4.7 km
TAVYSIDE HEALTH CENTRE
ABBEY RISE, TAVISTOCK, PL19 9FD
ODS code L83038
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Newbridge
BCT · Gunnislake
- 0.3 miles
Tavistock Woodlands
BCT · Gulworthy
- 0.3 miles
Tavistock Woodlands
BCT · Gulworthy
- 0.4 miles
Buccaneer Inn
BCT · Gunnislake
- 0.4 miles
Gulworthy Cottages
BCT · Gulworthy
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Devon 004C, 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
12,430 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
80 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 47 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.