Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Merryn School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL28 8GW
Padstow · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Padstow
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall
- Postcode district
- PL28
- Postcode sector
- PL28 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL28 8GW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2025
- Terminated
- 1 June 2025
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL28
- Postcode sector
- PL28 8
- Latitude
- 50.531239
- Longitude
- -5.010921
- British National Grid easting
- 186,715
- British National Grid northing
- 74,494
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Padstow · E05013317
- Parish or community
- E04011569
- Westminster constituency
- North Cornwall · E14001385
- Output area
- E00095737
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 008B · E01018955
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 008 · E02003938
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 PL28
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.4 km
St Merryn School
Academy converter
- 4.6 km
Padstow School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 42
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Other theft 8
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Burglary 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL28 8 residents
- 4,328
Age bands in PL28 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.9%
609 residents
373 residents
888 residents
1,160 residents
1,229 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
Trevose Golf Club
BCT · Constantine Bay
- 0.1 miles
Trevose Golf Club
BCT · Constantine Bay
- 0.1 miles
Constantine Bay Surf Stores
BCT · Constantine Bay
- 0.5 miles
Harlyn House
BCT · Harlyn
- 0.5 miles
Harlyn House
BCT · Harlyn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 008B, 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
15,150 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
42 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.