Schools
89 open schools are in scope, including 55 primary and 18 secondary schools. High View School is the nearest published school at 104 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL3 6HS
Efford and Lipson · Plymouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Efford and Lipson
- Local authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
- Postcode district
- PL3
- Postcode sector
- PL3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL3 6HS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL3
- Postcode sector
- PL3 6
- Latitude
- 50.388521
- Longitude
- -4.109083
- British National Grid easting
- 250,170
- British National Grid northing
- 56,421
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Plymouth · E06000026
- Electoral ward
- Efford and Lipson · E05002082
- Parish or community
- E43000021
- Westminster constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport · E14001427
- Output area
- E00076057
- Lower layer super output area
- Plymouth 021C · E01015057
- Middle layer super output area
- Plymouth 021 · E02003142
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 PL3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 89
- Primary
- 55
- Secondary
- 18
- 104 m
High View School
Academy converter
- 515 m
Laira Green Primary School
Community school
- 817 m
Austin Farm Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,347
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,067
- Anti social behaviour 227
- Criminal damage and arson 211
- Shoplifting 179
- Other theft 166
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- PL3 6 residents
- 12,397
14 female, 8 male
Age bands in PL3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
2,278 residents
1,321 residents
3,247 residents
3,206 residents
2,129 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL3 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
21
within 5 km
LISSON GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
3-5 LISSON GROVE, MUTLEY, PLYMOUTH, PL4 7DL
ODS code L83147
1.7 km
FRIARY HOUSE SURGERY
FRIARY HOUSE, BEAUMONT ROAD, ST. JUDES, PLYMOUTH, PL4 9BH
ODS code L83072
2.2 km
ELM SURGERY
123 LEYPARK WALK, ESTOVER, PLYMOUTH, PL6 8UF
ODS code L83019
2.4 km
WYCLIFFE SURGERY
8 CATTEDOWN ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL4 0BZ
ODS code L83076
2.4 km
PEVERELL PARK SURGERY
THE STABLES, 162 OUTLAND ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3PX
ODS code L83648
2.7 km
KNOWLE HOUSE SURGERY
4 MEAVY WAY, CROWNHILL, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3JB
ODS code L83089
2.9 km
NORTH ROAD WEST MED.CTR.
167 NORTH ROAD WEST, PLYMOUTH, PL1 5BZ
ODS code L83030
3.0 km
DEAN CROSS SURGERY
21 RADFORD PARK ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9DL
ODS code L83021
3.4 km
ST NEOTS SURGERY
1 NORTH PROSPECT ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3HY
ODS code L83028
3.7 km
ADELAIDE STREET SURGERY
20 ADELAIDE STREET, STONEHOUSE, PLYMOUTH, PL1 3JF
ODS code L83651
3.9 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
30 HOLLAND ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9BN
ODS code L83064
3.9 km
WEST HOE SURGERY
2 PIER STREET, PLYMOUTH, PL1 3BS
ODS code L83112
3.9 km
BEACON MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83100
4.0 km
PATHFIELDS MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83008
4.0 km
STOKE SURGERY
BELMONT VILLAS, STOKE, PLYMOUTH, PL3 4DP
ODS code L83071
4.2 km
BUDSHEAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
433 BUDSHEAD ROAD, WHITLEIGH, PLYMOUTH, PL5 4DU
ODS code L83113
4.4 km
ROBOROUGH SURGERY
1 EASTCOTE CLOSE, ROBOROUGH, PLYMOUTH, PL6 6PH
ODS code L83048
4.4 km
OAKSIDE SURGERY
HONICKNOWLE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, GUY MILES WAY, HONICKNOWLE GREEN, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3PY
ODS code L83015
4.4 km
DEVONPORT HEALTH CENTRE
DAMEREL CLOSE, DEVONPORT, PLYMOUTH, PL1 4JZ
ODS code L83624
4.7 km
SOUTHWAY SURGERY
33 ROCKFIELD AVENUE, PLYMOUTH, PL6 6DX
ODS code L83039
4.7 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Highfield Close
BCT · Efford
- 0.0 miles
Torridge Way
BCT · Efford
- 0.0 miles
Blandford Road
BCT · Efford
- 0.1 miles
Torridge Way
BCT · Efford
- 0.1 miles
Yeo Close
BCT · Efford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Plymouth 021C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,457 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,347 published events cover 12 months, averaging 195.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,067 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.