Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Heather Bridge School is the nearest published school at 388 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL20 6PA
Burrator · West Devon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Burrator
- Local authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- South West Devon
- Postcode district
- PL20
- Postcode sector
- PL20 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL20 6PA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL20
- Postcode sector
- PL20 6
- Latitude
- 50.505056
- Longitude
- -4.067786
- British National Grid easting
- 253,466
- British National Grid northing
- 69,295
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- West Devon · E07000047
- Electoral ward
- Burrator · E05010553
- Parish or community
- E04003357
- Westminster constituency
- South West Devon · E14001495
- Output area
- E00102931
- Lower layer super output area
- West Devon 006A · E01020317
- Middle layer super output area
- West Devon 006 · E02004234
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 PL20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 388 m
Heather Bridge School
Other independent special school
- 517 m
Lady Modiford's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Horrabridge Primary & Nursery School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 21
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 12
- Other theft 3
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Drugs 1
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL20 6 residents
- 5,521
Age bands in PL20 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.1%
611 residents
414 residents
1,057 residents
1,685 residents
1,702 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 straight-line
YELVERTON SURGERY
WESTELLA ROAD, YELVERTON, PL20 6AS
ODS code L83102
1.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Church View
BCT · Walkhampton
- 0.2 miles
Memorial
BCT · Walkhampton
- 0.2 miles
Memorial
BCT · Walkhampton
- 0.2 miles
Merrivale View Road
BCT · Dousland
- 0.2 miles
Merrivale View Road
BCT · Dousland
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Devon 006A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,864 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
21 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.