Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stowford School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL21 0GZ
Ermington & Ugborough · South Hams · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 0GZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL21
- Postcode sector
- PL21 0
- Latitude
- 50.383129
- Longitude
- -3.901693
- British National Grid easting
- 264,896
- British National Grid northing
- 55,424
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- South Hams · E07000044
- Electoral ward
- Ermington & Ugborough · E05010134
- Parish or community
- E04003184
- Westminster constituency
- South West Devon · E14001495
- Output area
- E00181170
- Lower layer super output area
- South Hams 002C · E01020160
- Middle layer super output area
- South Hams 002 · E02004190
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
- 1.3 km
Stowford School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Ivybridge Community College
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
The Erme Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 379
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 159
- Anti social behaviour 69
- Criminal damage and arson 35
- Shoplifting 32
- Other theft 26
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
MODBURY HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, POUNDWELL MEADOW, MODBURY, IVYBRIDGE, PL21 0QL
ODS code L83086
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Torre Close
BCT · Ivybridge
- 0.5 miles
Palace Lane
BCT · Filham
- 0.5 miles
Waterslade Drive
BCT · Ivybridge
- 0.5 miles
Palace Lane
BCT · Filham
- 0.5 miles
Davey's Cross
BCT · Filham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Hams 002C, 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
22,854 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
379 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 159 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.