Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bugle School is the nearest published school at 382 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL26 8QG
Roche & Bugle · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- St. Austell
- Ward
- Roche & Bugle
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay
- Postcode district
- PL26
- Postcode sector
- PL26 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL26 8QG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2008
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL26
- Postcode sector
- PL26 8
- Latitude
- 50.400646
- Longitude
- -4.791977
- British National Grid easting
- 201,683
- British National Grid northing
- 59,369
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Roche & Bugle · E05013331
- Parish or community
- E04011598
- Westminster constituency
- St Austell and Newquay · E14001508
- Output area
- E00182780
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 027F · E01019076
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 027 · E02003957
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Springfield House, 20, Station Road, Bugle, St. Austell, PL26 8QG | 26 June 2006 | £735,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 382 m
Bugle School
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
Treverbyn Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 3.1 km
Roche Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 343
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 191
- Criminal damage and arson 38
- Anti social behaviour 34
- Public order 23
- Other theft 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL26 8 residents
- 13,155
Age bands in PL26 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
2,322 residents
1,326 residents
3,185 residents
3,689 residents
2,612 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
CLAYS PRACTICE
VICTORIA ROAD, ROCHE, ST. AUSTELL, PL26 8JF
ODS code L82051
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bugle Rail Station
RLY · Bugle
- 0.0 miles
Bugle Rail Station
RSE · Bugle
- 0.1 miles
Red Lane
BCT · Molinnis
- 0.1 miles
Red Lane
BCT · Molinnis
- 0.2 miles
Bugle CP School
BCT · Bugle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 027F, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,891 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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
343 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 191 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.