Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 12 secondary schools. Leigham Primary School is the nearest published school at 188 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL6 8NU
Moor View · Plymouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Moor View
- Local authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Moor View
- Postcode district
- PL6
- Postcode sector
- PL6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL6 8NU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL6
- Postcode sector
- PL6 8
- Latitude
- 50.404917
- Longitude
- -4.093203
- British National Grid easting
- 251,350
- British National Grid northing
- 58,212
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Plymouth · E06000026
- Electoral ward
- Moor View · E05002086
- Parish or community
- E43000021
- Westminster constituency
- Plymouth Moor View · E14001426
- Output area
- E00076264
- Lower layer super output area
- Plymouth 010E · E01015096
- Middle layer super output area
- Plymouth 010 · E02003131
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
- 64
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 12
- 188 m
Leigham Primary School
Academy converter
- 836 m
Plym Bridge Nursery School and Day Care
Local authority nursery school
- 871 m
Tor Bridge Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 847
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 403
- Anti social behaviour 89
- Criminal damage and arson 77
- Public order 64
- Other theft 63
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 77
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- PL6 8 residents
- 11,470
45 female, 32 male
Age bands in PL6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
1,740 residents
1,474 residents
2,690 residents
2,583 residents
2,660 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL6 8 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
13
within 5 km
ELM SURGERY
123 LEYPARK WALK, ESTOVER, PLYMOUTH, PL6 8UF
ODS code L83019
431 m
KNOWLE HOUSE SURGERY
4 MEAVY WAY, CROWNHILL, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3JB
ODS code L83089
2.9 km
ROBOROUGH SURGERY
1 EASTCOTE CLOSE, ROBOROUGH, PLYMOUTH, PL6 6PH
ODS code L83048
3.0 km
BEACON MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83100
3.6 km
PATHFIELDS MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83008
3.6 km
LISSON GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
3-5 LISSON GROVE, MUTLEY, PLYMOUTH, PL4 7DL
ODS code L83147
3.7 km
SOUTHWAY SURGERY
33 ROCKFIELD AVENUE, PLYMOUTH, PL6 6DX
ODS code L83039
3.8 km
PEVERELL PARK SURGERY
THE STABLES, 162 OUTLAND ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL2 3PX
ODS code L83648
4.0 km
BUDSHEAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
433 BUDSHEAD ROAD, WHITLEIGH, PLYMOUTH, PL5 4DU
ODS code L83113
4.3 km
FRIARY HOUSE SURGERY
FRIARY HOUSE, BEAUMONT ROAD, ST. JUDES, PLYMOUTH, PL4 9BH
ODS code L83072
4.4 km
WYCLIFFE SURGERY
8 CATTEDOWN ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL4 0BZ
ODS code L83076
4.6 km
OAKSIDE SURGERY
HONICKNOWLE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, GUY MILES WAY, HONICKNOWLE GREEN, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3PY
ODS code L83015
4.8 km
NORTH ROAD WEST MED.CTR.
167 NORTH ROAD WEST, PLYMOUTH, PL1 5BZ
ODS code L83030
5.0 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
- 0.0 miles
Bradfield Close
BCT · Leigham
- 0.0 miles
Cockington Close
BCT · Leigham
- 0.1 miles
Mothecombe Walk
BCT · Leigham
- 0.1 miles
Sheepstor Road
BCT · Leigham
- 0.1 miles
Hallerton Close
BCT · Leigham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Plymouth 010E, 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
8,250 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
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
847 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 403 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.