PL21 9GY

Ivybridge West · South Hams · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Ivybridge West
Local authority: South Hams
Constituency: South West Devon
Postcode district: PL21
Postcode sector: PL21 9

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
PL21 9GX	0 m
PL21 9TP	23 m
PL21 9UB	64 m
PL21 9TR	105 m
PL21 9UD	110 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: PL21 9GY
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 May 2023
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: PL
Postcode district: PL21
Postcode sector: PL21 9
Latitude: 50.387202
Longitude: -3.935057
British National Grid easting: 262,536
British National Grid northing: 55,938

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South West · E12000009
Local authority district: South Hams · E07000044
Electoral ward: Ivybridge West · E05010136
Parish or community: E04003156
Westminster constituency: South West Devon · E14001495
Output area: E00102136
Lower layer super output area: South Hams 005F · E01020166
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

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Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 8
Primary: 7
Secondary: 1

Woodlands Park Primary School

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475 m
Manor Primary School, Ivybridge

Academy converter
682 m
The Erme Primary School

Community school
1.2 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 586
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 258
Anti social behaviour 81
Criminal damage and arson 53
Shoplifting 47
Other theft 42

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
PL21 9 residents: 8,483

Age bands in PL21 9

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 17.2%
Age 15 to 24: 9.5%
Age 25 to 44: 23.5%
Age 45 to 64: 28.5%
Age 65 and over: 21.4%

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.

Fixed broadband coverage

Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.

Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+: 100%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 0%

Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Cameron Drive

BCT · Ivybridge
0.0 miles
Cameron Drive

BCT · Ivybridge
0.0 miles
Cemetery

BCT · Ivybridge
0.1 miles
Cemetery

BCT · Ivybridge
0.1 miles
Allotment Gardens

BCT · Ivybridge
0.1 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Hams 005F, 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

10 of 10

Overall England rank

30,761 of 33,755

Income: 9 of 10
Employment: 9 of 10
Education and skills: 9 of 10
Health and disability: 8 of 10
Crime: 10 of 10
Housing and services: 5 of 10
Living environment: 10 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

Schools

8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Woodlands Park Primary School is the nearest published school at 475 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

586 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 258 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.