Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Foxhole Learning Academy is the nearest published school at 148 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL26 7UU
St Stephen-in-Brannel · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay
- Postcode district
- PL26
- Postcode sector
- PL26 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL26 7UU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL26
- Postcode sector
- PL26 7
- Latitude
- 50.359630
- Longitude
- -4.862449
- British National Grid easting
- 196,500
- British National Grid northing
- 55,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- St Stephen-in-Brannel · E05013346
- Parish or community
- E04011580
- Westminster constituency
- St Austell and Newquay · E14001508
- Output area
- E00096383
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 030B · E01019070
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 030 · E02003958
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
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 148 m
Foxhole Learning Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 974 m
Nanpean Community Primary School
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- 2.5 km
Whitemoor Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 162
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 81
- Criminal damage and arson 28
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Other theft 11
- Public order 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL26 7 residents
- 10,136
Age bands in PL26 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
1,546 residents
963 residents
2,026 residents
2,920 residents
2,482 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
BRANNEL SURGERY
58 RECTORY ROAD, ST STEPHEN, ST AUSTELL, PL26 7RL
ODS code L82011
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Goverseth Terrace
BCT · Foxhole
- 0.1 miles
Goverseth Terrace
BCT · Foxhole
- 0.1 miles
Costcutter
BCT · Foxhole
- 0.1 miles
Costcutter
BCT · Foxhole
- 0.3 miles
Gainsborough Park
BCT · Foxhole
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 030B, 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
7,272 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 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
162 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 81 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.