Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 8 secondary schools. Oakwood Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 289 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL6 6EL
Southway · Plymouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Southway
- Local authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Moor View
- Postcode district
- PL6
- Postcode sector
- PL6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL6 6EL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2012
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL6
- Postcode sector
- PL6 6
- Latitude
- 50.430955
- Longitude
- -4.124542
- British National Grid easting
- 249,206
- British National Grid northing
- 61,170
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Plymouth · E06000026
- Electoral ward
- Southway · E05002095
- Parish or community
- E43000021
- Westminster constituency
- Plymouth Moor View · E14001426
- Output area
- E00076597
- Lower layer super output area
- Plymouth 002B · E01015159
- Middle layer super output area
- Plymouth 002 · E02003123
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 PL6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 8
- 289 m
Oakwood Primary Academy
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- 653 m
Beechwood Primary Academy
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- 653 m
Widewell Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,129
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 591
- Criminal damage and arson 115
- Anti social behaviour 112
- Other theft 68
- Public order 65
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL6 6 residents
- 9,909
Age bands in PL6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
1,858 residents
952 residents
2,441 residents
2,453 residents
2,177 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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
SOUTHWAY SURGERY
33 ROCKFIELD AVENUE, PLYMOUTH, PL6 6DX
ODS code L83039
720 m
ROBOROUGH SURGERY
1 EASTCOTE CLOSE, ROBOROUGH, PLYMOUTH, PL6 6PH
ODS code L83048
775 m
BUDSHEAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
433 BUDSHEAD ROAD, WHITLEIGH, PLYMOUTH, PL5 4DU
ODS code L83113
2.4 km
KNOWLE HOUSE SURGERY
4 MEAVY WAY, CROWNHILL, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3JB
ODS code L83089
2.6 km
ELM SURGERY
123 LEYPARK WALK, ESTOVER, PLYMOUTH, PL6 8UF
ODS code L83019
3.2 km
OAKSIDE SURGERY
HONICKNOWLE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, GUY MILES WAY, HONICKNOWLE GREEN, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3PY
ODS code L83015
3.3 km
PEVERELL PARK SURGERY
THE STABLES, 162 OUTLAND ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3PX
ODS code L83648
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Flamborough Road
BCT · Southway
- 0.0 miles
Langley Crescent
BCT · Southway
- 0.1 miles
Flamborough Road
BCT · Southway
- 0.1 miles
Flamborough Road
BCT · Southway
- 0.1 miles
Cromer Close
BCT · Southway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Plymouth 002B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,352 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,129 published events cover 12 months, averaging 94.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 591 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.