Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Gorran School is the nearest published school at 2.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL26 6FB
St Mewan & Grampound · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 6FB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL26
- Postcode sector
- PL26 6
- Latitude
- 50.268219
- Longitude
- -4.848542
- British National Grid easting
- 197,100
- British National Grid northing
- 44,800
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
- E00096352
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 041D · E01019066
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 4.0 km
Gorran School
Community school
- 4.1 km
The Roseland Academy
Academy converter
- 4.3 km
Tregony Community Primary School
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL26 6 residents
- 4,966
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
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
MEVAGISSEY SURGERY
RIVER STREET, MEVAGISSEY, ST. AUSTELL, PL26 6UE
ODS code L82025
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Polmassick
BCT · Polmassick
- 0.5 miles
Polmassick
BCT · Polmassick
- 0.9 miles
Crown Inn
BCT · St Ewe
- 0.9 miles
Crown Inn
BCT · St Ewe
- 1.2 miles
Kestle Farm
BCT · Kestle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 041D, 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
17,615 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.