Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Merryn School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL28 8YW
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 8YW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL28
- Postcode sector
- PL28 8
- Latitude
- 50.542779
- Longitude
- -5.018927
- British National Grid easting
- 186,200
- British National Grid northing
- 75,800
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
- E00095738
- 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
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.7 km
St Merryn School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 18
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Burglary 3
- Other theft 3
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Other crime 1
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
- 0.7 miles
Harlyn House
BCT · Harlyn
- 0.7 miles
Harlyn House
BCT · Harlyn
- 0.8 miles
Trevose Golf Club
BCT · Constantine Bay
- 0.8 miles
Trevose Golf Club
BCT · Constantine Bay
- 0.9 miles
Constantine Bay Surf Stores
BCT · Constantine Bay
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
18 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.