Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. Treverbyn Academy is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL26 8XS
Penwithick & Boscoppa · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 8XS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2001
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL26
- Postcode sector
- PL26 8
- Latitude
- 50.374484
- Longitude
- -4.812621
- British National Grid easting
- 200,106
- British National Grid northing
- 56,516
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Penwithick & Boscoppa · E05013319
- Parish or community
- E04011598
- Westminster constituency
- St Austell and Newquay · E14001508
- Output area
- E00096385
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 027E · E01019075
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.7 km
Treverbyn Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.6 km
Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery
Free schools
- 2.9 km
Bugle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 48
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Other theft 5
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Burglary 2
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
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
The Old Post Office
BCT · Carthew
- 0.4 miles
The Old Post Office
BCT · Carthew
- 0.6 miles
Roche Road
BCT · Stenalees
- 0.6 miles
Roche Road
BCT · Stenalees
- 0.7 miles
Stoney Cottage
BCT · Stenalees
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 027E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,036 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
48 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.