Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 12 secondary schools. Woodlands School is the nearest published school at 221 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL6 6RZ
Southway · Plymouth · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL6 6RZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL6
- Postcode sector
- PL6 6
- Latitude
- 50.423044
- Longitude
- -4.139506
- British National Grid easting
- 248,118
- British National Grid northing
- 60,321
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
- E00076610
- Lower layer super output area
- Plymouth 002D · E01015162
- 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
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 39, Frontfield Crescent, Plymouth, PL6 6RZ | 12 April 2019 | £137,500 |
| 51, Frontfield Crescent, Plymouth, PL6 6RZ | 30 November 2018 | £150,000 |
| 41, Frontfield Crescent, Plymouth, PL6 6RZ | 13 December 2017 | £131,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 12
- 221 m
Woodlands School
Foundation special school
- 560 m
Whitleigh Community Primary School
Foundation school
- 573 m
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,046
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,058
- Criminal damage and arson 208
- Anti social behaviour 184
- Public order 126
- Other theft 120
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- PL6 6 residents
- 9,909
9 female, 9 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL6 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
- 14.3%
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
10
within 5 km straight-line
SOUTHWAY SURGERY
33 ROCKFIELD AVENUE, PLYMOUTH, PL6 6DX
ODS code L83039
679 m
BUDSHEAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
433 BUDSHEAD ROAD, WHITLEIGH, PLYMOUTH, PL5 4DU
ODS code L83113
990 m
KNOWLE HOUSE SURGERY
4 MEAVY WAY, CROWNHILL, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3JB
ODS code L83089
1.6 km
ROBOROUGH SURGERY
1 EASTCOTE CLOSE, ROBOROUGH, PLYMOUTH, PL6 6PH
ODS code L83048
1.8 km
OAKSIDE SURGERY
HONICKNOWLE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, GUY MILES WAY, HONICKNOWLE GREEN, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3PY
ODS code L83015
1.9 km
PEVERELL PARK SURGERY
THE STABLES, 162 OUTLAND ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3PX
ODS code L83648
3.4 km
ELM SURGERY
123 LEYPARK WALK, ESTOVER, PLYMOUTH, PL6 8UF
ODS code L83019
3.5 km
MAYFLOWER MEDICAL GROUP
STIRLING ROAD MEDICAL CTR, STIRLING ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL5 1PL
ODS code L83006
4.0 km
ST NEOTS SURGERY
1 NORTH PROSPECT ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3HY
ODS code L83028
4.2 km
LISSON GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
3-5 LISSON GROVE, MUTLEY, PLYMOUTH, PL4 7DL
ODS code L83147
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Frontfield Crescent
BCT · Southway
- 0.1 miles
Looseleigh Lane
BCT · Southway
- 0.1 miles
Frontfield Crescent
BCT · Southway
- 0.1 miles
Looseleigh Lane
BCT · Southway
- 0.1 miles
Southway Drive
BCT · Southway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Plymouth 002D, 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
6,192 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 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
2,046 published events cover 12 months, averaging 170.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,058 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.