Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Minver School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL27 6SJ
Wadebridge East & St Minver · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall
- Postcode district
- PL27
- Postcode sector
- PL27 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL27 6SJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL27
- Postcode sector
- PL27 6
- Latitude
- 50.564264
- Longitude
- -4.917204
- British National Grid easting
- 193,500
- British National Grid northing
- 77,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Wadebridge East & St Minver · E05013357
- Parish or community
- E04011575
- Westminster constituency
- North Cornwall · E14001385
- Output area
- E00172774
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 007E · E01033289
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 007 · E02003937
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 PL27
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.0 km
St Minver School
Academy converter
- 3.7 km
Padstow School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 54
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Other theft 10
- Shoplifting 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Drugs 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL27 6 residents
- 5,539
Age bands in PL27 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.4%
851 residents
483 residents
1,140 residents
1,592 residents
1,694 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Mowhay Cafe
BCT · Trebetherick
- 0.1 miles
The Mowhay
BCT · Trebetherick
- 0.3 miles
Trenain Farm Lane
BCT · Trebetherick
- 0.3 miles
Trenain Farm Lane
BCT · Trebetherick
- 0.4 miles
The White Heron
BCT · Polzeath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 007E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,638 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
54 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.