Property market
The five-year median is £2,100,000 from 1 recorded sale in PL23 1JB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cornwall is £277,801 in June 2026, up 3.7% year on year.
PL23 1JB
Fowey, Tywardreath & Par · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Fowey
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay
- Postcode district
- PL23
- Postcode sector
- PL23 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL23 1JB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL23
- Postcode sector
- PL23 1
- Latitude
- 50.330861
- Longitude
- -4.642985
- British National Grid easting
- 211,994
- British National Grid northing
- 51,224
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Fowey, Tywardreath & Par · E05013290
- Parish or community
- E04011436
- Westminster constituency
- St Austell and Newquay · E14001508
- Output area
- E00096129
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 035B · E01019025
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 035 · E02003960
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 PL23
Property
35 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 26, Tower Park, Fowey, PL23 1JB | 15 January 2024 | £2,100,000 |
| Penlee Flats, 2, 3, Tower Park, Fowey, PL23 1JB | 30 August 2019 | £630,000 |
| 16, Tower Park, Fowey, PL23 1JB | 30 May 2018 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 460 m
Fowey River Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 629 m
Fowey Primary School
Academy converter
- 793 m
Polruan Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 162
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 89
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Criminal damage and arson 17
- Other theft 13
- Public order 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- PL23 1 residents
- 3,150
10 female, 10 male
Age bands in PL23 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.2%
363 residents
277 residents
491 residents
1,016 residents
1,116 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL23 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 4.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 4.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 4.3%
- 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
FOWEY RIVER PRACTICE
RAWLINGS LANE, FOWEY, PL23 1DT
ODS code L82035
953 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Gallant's Drive
BCT · Fowey
- 0.1 miles
Gallant's Drive
BCT · Fowey
- 0.1 miles
Tower Park
BCT · Fowey
- 0.1 miles
Tower Park
BCT · Fowey
- 0.1 miles
Top Hanson Drive
BCT · Fowey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 035B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,754 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Fowey River Academy is the nearest published school at 460 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
162 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 89 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.