Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 9 secondary schools. Hele's School is the nearest published school at 974 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL7 1SL
Plympton Erle · Plymouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Plymouth
- Ward
- Plympton Erle
- Local authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon
- Postcode district
- PL7
- Postcode sector
- PL7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL7 1SL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL7
- Postcode sector
- PL7 1
- Latitude
- 50.385446
- Longitude
- -4.073987
- British National Grid easting
- 252,655
- British National Grid northing
- 56,009
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Plymouth · E06000026
- Electoral ward
- Plympton Erle · E05002089
- Parish or community
- E43000021
- Westminster constituency
- South West Devon · E14001495
- Output area
- E00076351
- Lower layer super output area
- Plymouth 019B · E01015113
- Middle layer super output area
- Plymouth 019 · E02003140
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 PL7
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Merafield Farm, Merafield Road, Plymouth, PL7 1SL | 4 December 2014 | £360,000 |
| 162, Merafield Road, Plymouth, PL7 1SL | 14 December 2012 | £160,000 |
| 168, Merafield Road, Plymouth, PL7 1SL | 10 October 2008 | £175,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 9
- 974 m
Hele's School
Academy converter
- 984 m
Woodford Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.0 km
St Mary's Priory CofE Infant & Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 786
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 288
- Shoplifting 192
- Anti social behaviour 78
- Other theft 64
- Criminal damage and arson 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- PL7 1 residents
- 8,866
11 female, 11 male
Age bands in PL7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.8%
1,500 residents
830 residents
2,044 residents
2,526 residents
2,150 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL7 1 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+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 87.5%
- 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
9
within 5 km
BEACON MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83100
1.5 km
PATHFIELDS MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83008
1.5 km
ELM SURGERY
123 LEYPARK WALK, ESTOVER, PLYMOUTH, PL6 8UF
ODS code L83019
3.0 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
30 HOLLAND ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9BN
ODS code L83064
3.3 km
DEAN CROSS SURGERY
21 RADFORD PARK ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9DL
ODS code L83021
3.3 km
WYCLIFFE SURGERY
8 CATTEDOWN ROAD, PLYMOUTH, PL4 0BZ
ODS code L83076
3.9 km
LISSON GROVE MEDICAL CTR.
3-5 LISSON GROVE, MUTLEY, PLYMOUTH, PL4 7DL
ODS code L83147
4.1 km
FRIARY HOUSE SURGERY
FRIARY HOUSE, BEAUMONT ROAD, ST. JUDES, PLYMOUTH, PL4 9BH
ODS code L83072
4.1 km
KNOWLE HOUSE SURGERY
4 MEAVY WAY, CROWNHILL, PLYMOUTH, PL5 3JB
ODS code L83089
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
Saltram
BCT · Saltram
- 0.0 miles
Grantham Close
BCT · Saltram
- 0.1 miles
Woodland Drive
BCT · Underwood
- 0.1 miles
Woodland Drive
BCT · Underwood
- 0.1 miles
Cot Hill
BCT · Underwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Plymouth 019B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,023 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
786 published events cover 12 months, averaging 65.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 288 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.