Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Polruan Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 92 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL23 1YW
Looe West, Pelynt, Lansallos & Lanteglos · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall
- Postcode district
- PL23
- Postcode sector
- PL23 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL23 1YW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL23
- Postcode sector
- PL23 1
- Latitude
- 50.327277
- Longitude
- -4.632866
- British National Grid easting
- 212,700
- British National Grid northing
- 50,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Looe West, Pelynt, Lansallos & Lanteglos · E05013306
- Parish or community
- E04011464
- Westminster constituency
- South East Cornwall · E14001486
- Output area
- E00094730
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 028D · E01018766
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 028 · E02003901
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 92 m
Polruan Primary Academy
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- 1.2 km
Fowey River Academy
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- 1.2 km
Fowey Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 137
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 72
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Other theft 11
- Public order 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL23 1 residents
- 3,150
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
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
FOWEY RIVER PRACTICE
RAWLINGS LANE, FOWEY, PL23 1DT
ODS code L82035
1.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St Saviour's Hill
BCT · Polruan
- 0.1 miles
St Saviour's Hill
BCT · Polruan
- 0.1 miles
The Quay
BCT · Polruan
- 0.1 miles
Greenbank
BCT · Polruan
- 0.2 miles
Ocean View
BCT · Polruan
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 028D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,307 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
137 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 72 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.