Schools
94 open schools are in scope, including 59 primary and 17 secondary schools. Plymouth College is the nearest published school at 235 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL4 6RD
Drake · Plymouth · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL4 6RD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL4
- Postcode sector
- PL4 6
- Latitude
- 50.382777
- Longitude
- -4.138425
- British National Grid easting
- 248,066
- British National Grid northing
- 55,842
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Plymouth · E06000026
- Electoral ward
- Drake · E05002081
- Parish or community
- E43000021
- Westminster constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport · E14001427
- Output area
- E00076050
- Lower layer super output area
- Plymouth 023C · E01015049
- Middle layer super output area
- Plymouth 023 · E02003144
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 PL4
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 32, Ford Park Road, Plymouth, PL4 6RD | 31 March 2017 | £210,500 |
| 33, Ford Park Road, Plymouth, PL4 6RD | 24 October 2008 | £280,000 |
| 24, Ford Park Road, Plymouth, PL4 6RD | 25 January 2005 | £258,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 94
- Primary
- 59
- Secondary
- 17
- 235 m
Plymouth College
Other independent school
- 311 m
Hyde Park Infants' School
Academy converter
- 328 m
Hyde Park Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9,115
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,929
- Anti social behaviour 939
- Shoplifting 811
- Criminal damage and arson 723
- Other theft 693
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 4.2
- PL4 6 residents
- 6,044
16 female, 30 male
Age bands in PL4 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 48.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 11.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.6%
380 residents
3,082 residents
1,585 residents
744 residents
547 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL4 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
18
within 5 km
LISSON GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
3-5 LISSON GROVE, MUTLEY, PLYMOUTH, PL4 7DL
ODS code L83147
486 m
NORTH ROAD WEST MED.CTR.
167 NORTH ROAD WEST, PLYMOUTH, PL1 5BZ
ODS code L83030
935 m
PEVERELL PARK SURGERY
THE STABLES, 162 OUTLAND ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3PX
ODS code L83648
1.3 km
FRIARY HOUSE SURGERY
FRIARY HOUSE, BEAUMONT ROAD, ST. JUDES, PLYMOUTH, PL4 9BH
ODS code L83072
1.3 km
ST NEOTS SURGERY
1 NORTH PROSPECT ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3HY
ODS code L83028
1.7 km
ADELAIDE STREET SURGERY
20 ADELAIDE STREET, STONEHOUSE, PLYMOUTH, PL1 3JF
ODS code L83651
1.8 km
WYCLIFFE SURGERY
8 CATTEDOWN ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL4 0BZ
ODS code L83076
1.9 km
STOKE SURGERY
BELMONT VILLAS, STOKE, PLYMOUTH, PL3 4DP
ODS code L83071
2.1 km
WEST HOE SURGERY
2 PIER STREET, PLYMOUTH, PL1 3BS
ODS code L83112
2.2 km
DEVONPORT HEALTH CENTRE
DAMEREL CLOSE, DEVONPORT, PLYMOUTH, PL1 4JZ
ODS code L83624
2.5 km
ST. LEVAN SURGERY
350 ST. LEVAN ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 1JR
ODS code L83646
2.8 km
KNOWLE HOUSE SURGERY
4 MEAVY WAY, CROWNHILL, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3JB
ODS code L83089
2.9 km
OAKSIDE SURGERY
HONICKNOWLE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, GUY MILES WAY, HONICKNOWLE GREEN, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3PY
ODS code L83015
3.5 km
BUDSHEAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
433 BUDSHEAD ROAD, WHITLEIGH, PLYMOUTH, PL5 4DU
ODS code L83113
3.9 km
DEAN CROSS SURGERY
21 RADFORD PARK ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9DL
ODS code L83021
4.1 km
ELM SURGERY
123 LEYPARK WALK, ESTOVER, PLYMOUTH, PL6 8UF
ODS code L83019
4.1 km
MAYFLOWER MEDICAL GROUP
STIRLING ROAD MEDICAL CTR, STIRLING ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL5 1PL
ODS code L83006
4.3 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
30 HOLLAND ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9BN
ODS code L83064
4.7 km
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
- 0.1 miles
Ford Park Road
BCT · Mutley
- 0.1 miles
Ford Park Road
BCT · Mutley
- 0.1 miles
Pentillie Road
BCT · Mutley
- 0.1 miles
Gifford Place
BCT · Mutley
- 0.1 miles
Trematon Terrace
BCT · Mutley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Plymouth 023C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,108 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
9,115 published events cover 12 months, averaging 759.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,929 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.