Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Erme Primary School is the nearest published school at 182 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL21 0AA
Ivybridge East · South Hams · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ivybridge East
- Local authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon
- Postcode district
- PL21
- Postcode sector
- PL21 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL21 0AA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2016
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL21
- Postcode sector
- PL21 0
- Latitude
- 50.393780
- Longitude
- -3.919665
- British National Grid easting
- 263,649
- British National Grid northing
- 56,641
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- South Hams · E07000044
- Electoral ward
- Ivybridge East · E05010135
- Parish or community
- E04003156
- Westminster constituency
- South West Devon · E14001495
- Output area
- E00102108
- Lower layer super output area
- South Hams 005D · E01020164
- Middle layer super output area
- South Hams 005 · E02004193
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 PL21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 182 m
The Erme Primary School
Community school
- 281 m
Ivybridge Community College
Academy converter
- 528 m
Stowford School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 618
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 279
- Anti social behaviour 93
- Criminal damage and arson 56
- Shoplifting 46
- Other theft 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL21 0 residents
- 10,596
Age bands in PL21 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
1,595 residents
972 residents
2,036 residents
3,017 residents
2,249 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
- 0.2 miles
Sportsmans Inn
BCT · Ivybridge
- 0.3 miles
Sportsmans Inn
BCT · Ivybridge
- 0.3 miles
Macandrew Walk
BCT · Ivybridge
- 0.3 miles
Marshalls Field
BCT · Ivybridge
- 0.3 miles
Town Hall
BCT · Ivybridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Hams 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,419 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
618 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 279 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.