Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Modbury Primary School is the nearest published school at 269 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL21 0PX
Charterlands · South Hams · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Charterlands
- Local authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon
- Postcode district
- PL21
- Postcode sector
- PL21 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL21 0PX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2016
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL21
- Postcode sector
- PL21 0
- Latitude
- 50.348880
- Longitude
- -3.886718
- British National Grid easting
- 265,864
- British National Grid northing
- 51,589
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- South Hams · E07000044
- Electoral ward
- Charterlands · E05010131
- Parish or community
- E04003164
- Westminster constituency
- South Devon · E14001484
- Output area
- E00102093
- Lower layer super output area
- South Hams 008B · E01020158
- Middle layer super output area
- South Hams 008 · E02004196
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
- 4
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 269 m
Modbury Primary School
Community school
- 2.5 km
Ermington Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.6 km
Holbeton Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 58
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 28
- Other theft 9
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Other crime 2
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
117 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Modbury
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Modbury
- 0.2 miles
Lanveoc Way
BCT · Modbury
- 0.2 miles
Lanveoc Way
BCT · Modbury
- 0.3 miles
New Mills Industrial Estate
BCT · Modbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Hams 008B, 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
23,590 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
58 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 28 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.