Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Padstow School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL28 8WW
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 8WW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 2006
- Terminated
- 1 November 2007
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL28
- Postcode sector
- PL28 8
- Latitude
- 50.535134
- Longitude
- -4.967162
- British National Grid easting
- 189,833
- British National Grid northing
- 74,802
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Padstow · E05013317
- Parish or community
- E04011500
- Westminster constituency
- North Cornwall · E14001385
- Output area
- E00095717
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 008D · E01018957
- 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
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Padstow School
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- 2.5 km
St Merryn School
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- 4.4 km
St Issey Church of England Primary 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 8
- Public order 7
- Shoplifting 4
- Vehicle crime 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
- 0.2 miles
Trevone Turn
BCT · Windmill
- 0.2 miles
Trevone Turn
BCT · Windmill
- 0.5 miles
Woodlands Country House
BCT · Treator
- 0.5 miles
Woodlands Country House
BCT · Treator
- 0.5 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Trevone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 008D, 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
16,742 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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.