Schools
85 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 16 secondary schools. Ford Primary School is the nearest published school at 113 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL2 3BQ
Stoke · Plymouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Stoke
- Local authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
- Postcode district
- PL2
- Postcode sector
- PL2 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL2 3BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL2
- Postcode sector
- PL2 3
- Latitude
- 50.387281
- Longitude
- -4.166286
- British National Grid easting
- 246,100
- British National Grid northing
- 56,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Plymouth · E06000026
- Electoral ward
- Stoke · E05002096
- Parish or community
- E43000021
- Westminster constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport · E14001427
- Output area
- E00076634
- Lower layer super output area
- Plymouth 020D · E01015168
- Middle layer super output area
- Plymouth 020 · E02003141
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 PL2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 85
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 16
- 113 m
Ford Primary School
Academy converter
- 695 m
College Road Primary School
Foundation school
- 836 m
Scott Medical and Healthcare College
Studio schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,248
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,085
- Anti social behaviour 430
- Criminal damage and arson 404
- Other theft 255
- Public order 255
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL2 3 residents
- 11,385
Age bands in PL2 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
2,197 residents
1,182 residents
3,140 residents
3,061 residents
2,097 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
18
within 5 km straight-line
ST NEOTS SURGERY
1 NORTH PROSPECT ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3HY
ODS code L83028
389 m
ST. LEVAN SURGERY
350 ST. LEVAN ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 1JR
ODS code L83646
872 m
STOKE SURGERY
BELMONT VILLAS, STOKE, PLYMOUTH, PL3 4DP
ODS code L83071
923 m
PEVERELL PARK SURGERY
THE STABLES, 162 OUTLAND ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3PX
ODS code L83648
1.5 km
NORTH ROAD WEST MED.CTR.
167 NORTH ROAD WEST, PLYMOUTH, PL1 5BZ
ODS code L83030
1.9 km
DEVONPORT HEALTH CENTRE
DAMEREL CLOSE, DEVONPORT, PLYMOUTH, PL1 4JZ
ODS code L83624
1.9 km
ADELAIDE STREET SURGERY
20 ADELAIDE STREET, STONEHOUSE, PLYMOUTH, PL1 3JF
ODS code L83651
2.0 km
LISSON GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
3-5 LISSON GROVE, MUTLEY, PLYMOUTH, PL4 7DL
ODS code L83147
2.5 km
MAYFLOWER MEDICAL GROUP
STIRLING ROAD MEDICAL CTR, STIRLING ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL5 1PL
ODS code L83006
2.5 km
OAKSIDE SURGERY
HONICKNOWLE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, GUY MILES WAY, HONICKNOWLE GREEN, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3PY
ODS code L83015
2.7 km
WEST HOE SURGERY
2 PIER STREET, PLYMOUTH, PL1 3BS
ODS code L83112
2.8 km
FRIARY HOUSE SURGERY
FRIARY HOUSE, BEAUMONT ROAD, ST. JUDES, PLYMOUTH, PL4 9BH
ODS code L83072
3.2 km
KNOWLE HOUSE SURGERY
4 MEAVY WAY, CROWNHILL, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3JB
ODS code L83089
3.3 km
BUDSHEAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
433 BUDSHEAD ROAD, WHITLEIGH, PLYMOUTH, PL5 4DU
ODS code L83113
3.5 km
WYCLIFFE SURGERY
8 CATTEDOWN ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL4 0BZ
ODS code L83076
3.7 km
PORT VIEW SURGERY
HIGHER PORT VIEW, SALTASH, PL12 4BU
ODS code L82066
4.1 km
RAME GROUP PRACTICE
PENNTORR HEALTH, TREVOL ROAD, TORPOINT, PL11 2TB
ODS code Y00969
4.4 km
SALTASH HEALTH CENTRE
CALLINGTON ROAD, SALTASH, PL12 6DL
ODS code L82046
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wolseley Road Shops
BCT · North Prospect
- 0.1 miles
Alexandra Road
BCT · North Prospect
- 0.1 miles
Wolseley Road Shops
BCT · North Prospect
- 0.1 miles
Greatlands Place
BCT · North Prospect
- 0.1 miles
Henderson Place
BCT · Ford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Plymouth 020D, 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
8,828 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
4,248 published events cover 12 months, averaging 354 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,085 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.