Property market
The five-year median is £525,000 from 2 recorded sales in PL26 6ER. 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.
PL26 6ER
St Mewan & Grampound · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- St Austell
- Ward
- St Mewan & Grampound
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay
- Postcode district
- PL26
- Postcode sector
- PL26 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL26 6ER
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL26
- Postcode sector
- PL26 6
- Latitude
- 50.281236
- Longitude
- -4.827883
- British National Grid easting
- 198,627
- British National Grid northing
- 46,191
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- St Mewan & Grampound · E05013859
- Parish or community
- E04011548
- Westminster constituency
- St Austell and Newquay · E14001508
- Output area
- E00096353
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 041E · E01019067
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 041 · E02003964
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 PL26
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Plain An Gwarry, St Ewe, St Austell, PL26 6ER | 20 October 2025 | £490,000 |
| Heligan Cottage, St Ewe, St Austell, PL26 6ER | 1 September 2021 | £560,000 |
| Blow The Winds, St Ewe, St Austell, PL26 6ER | 12 February 2014 | £375,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.9 km
Mevagissey Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.5 km
Gorran School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- PL26 6 residents
- 4,966
13 female, 17 male
Age bands in PL26 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.4%
692 residents
408 residents
861 residents
1,679 residents
1,827 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL26 6 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+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 88.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 88.9%
- 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
MEVAGISSEY SURGERY
RIVER STREET, MEVAGISSEY, ST. AUSTELL, PL26 6UE
ODS code L82025
3.0 km
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
- 0.0 miles
St Ewe Turn
BCT · St Ewe
- 0.3 miles
Corran Farm
BCT · St Ewe
- 0.3 miles
Corran Farm
BCT · St Ewe
- 0.5 miles
Crown Inn
BCT · St Ewe
- 0.5 miles
Crown Inn
BCT · St Ewe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 041E, 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
18,467 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 1
- 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
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Mevagissey Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.