Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Penrice Academy is the nearest published school at 224 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL25 3LA
St Austell Poltair & Mount Charles · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay
- Postcode district
- PL25
- Postcode sector
- PL25 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL25 3LA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2008
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL25
- Postcode sector
- PL25 3
- Latitude
- 50.338796
- Longitude
- -4.771552
- British National Grid easting
- 202,878
- British National Grid northing
- 52,439
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- St Austell Poltair & Mount Charles · E05013836
- Parish or community
- E04013080
- Westminster constituency
- St Austell and Newquay · E14001508
- Output area
- E00096228
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 039C · E01019042
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 039 · E02003963
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 PL25
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 224 m
Penrice Academy
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- 325 m
Mount Charles School
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- 403 m
Sandy Hill Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,832
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 868
- Anti social behaviour 216
- Criminal damage and arson 190
- Public order 117
- Other theft 111
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL25 3 residents
- 11,820
Age bands in PL25 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.6%
1,925 residents
1,108 residents
2,476 residents
3,205 residents
2,995 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
ST AUSTELL HEALTH GROUP
1 WHEAL NORTHEY, ST. AUSTELL, PL25 3EF
ODS code Y04957
1.0 km
MIDDLEWAY SURGERY
MIDDLEWAY, ST. BLAZEY, PAR, PL24 2JL
ODS code L82026
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Polmear Road
BCT · Mount Charles
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Road
BCT · Mount Charles
- 0.1 miles
Air Ambulance Trust
BCT · Mount Charles
- 0.1 miles
Air Ambulance Trust
BCT · Mount Charles
- 0.1 miles
Penrice School
BCT · St Austell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 039C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,146 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,832 published events cover 12 months, averaging 152.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 868 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.