Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Poltair School is the nearest published school at 696 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL25 5AS
St Austell Central & Gover · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay
- Postcode district
- PL25
- Postcode sector
- PL25 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL25 5AS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2005
- Terminated
- 1 November 2025
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL25
- Postcode sector
- PL25 5
- Latitude
- 50.340795
- Longitude
- -4.795507
- British National Grid easting
- 201,182
- British National Grid northing
- 52,725
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- St Austell Central & Gover · E05013854
- Parish or community
- E04013080
- Westminster constituency
- St Austell and Newquay · E14001508
- Output area
- E00096176
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 038B · E01019034
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 038 · E02003962
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
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 696 m
Poltair School
Academy sponsor led
- 899 m
Pondhu Primary School
Academy converter
- 977 m
Cornwall College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,765
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 800
- Anti social behaviour 206
- Criminal damage and arson 198
- Shoplifting 126
- Public order 120
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL25 5 residents
- 6,346
Age bands in PL25 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
947 residents
616 residents
1,337 residents
1,819 residents
1,447 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
ST AUSTELL HEALTH GROUP
1 WHEAL NORTHEY, ST. AUSTELL, PL25 3EF
ODS code Y04957
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
White River Cinema
BCT · St Austell
- 0.2 miles
White River Cinema
BCT · St Austell
- 0.3 miles
Flats
BCT · St Austell
- 0.3 miles
Duke Street
BCT · St Austell
- 0.3 miles
Co-Op
BCT · St Austell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 038B, 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
7,048 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
Recorded crime
1,765 published events cover 12 months, averaging 147.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 800 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.