Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Castlebridge School is the nearest published school at 400 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL19 9DR
Tavistock South West · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tavistock South West
- Local authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock
- Postcode district
- PL19
- Postcode sector
- PL19 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL19 9DR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2007
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL19
- Postcode sector
- PL19 9
- Latitude
- 50.545832
- Longitude
- -4.146033
- British National Grid easting
- 248,049
- British National Grid northing
- 73,986
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- West Devon · E07000047
- Electoral ward
- Tavistock South West · E05010567
- Parish or community
- E04003354
- Westminster constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock · E14001552
- Output area
- E00103038
- Lower layer super output area
- West Devon 005D · E01020335
- Middle layer super output area
- West Devon 005 · E02004233
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 PL19
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 400 m
Castlebridge School
Free schools special
- 469 m
Tavistock Primary & Nursery School
Foundation school
- 612 m
St Rumon's Church of England Infants School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 717
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 333
- Anti social behaviour 79
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Public order 59
- Shoplifting 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL19 9 residents
- 7,250
Age bands in PL19 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.2%
942 residents
563 residents
1,160 residents
2,166 residents
2,509 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
TAVYSIDE HEALTH CENTRE
ABBEY RISE, TAVISTOCK, PL19 9FD
ODS code L83038
1 m
ABBEY SURGERY
28 PLYMOUTH ROAD, TAVISTOCK, PL19 8BU
ODS code L83101
328 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Down Road
BCT · Tavistock
- 0.1 miles
Down Road
BCT · Tavistock
- 0.1 miles
Down Road Bottom
BCT · Tavistock
- 0.1 miles
Down Road Bottom
BCT · Tavistock
- 0.2 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Tavistock
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Devon 005D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,016 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
717 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 333 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.