Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 6 secondary schools. Plympton Academy is the nearest published school at 94 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL7 2AB
Plympton St Mary · Plymouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Plympton St Mary
- Local authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon
- Postcode district
- PL7
- Postcode sector
- PL7 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL7 2AB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL7
- Postcode sector
- PL7 2
- Latitude
- 50.387573
- Longitude
- -4.050938
- British National Grid easting
- 254,300
- British National Grid northing
- 56,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Plymouth · E06000026
- Electoral ward
- Plympton St Mary · E05002090
- Parish or community
- E43000021
- Westminster constituency
- South West Devon · E14001495
- Output area
- E00076355
- Lower layer super output area
- Plymouth 022C · E01015115
- Middle layer super output area
- Plymouth 022 · E02003143
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 6
- 94 m
Plympton Academy
Academy converter
- 437 m
St Mary's Priory Junior School
Academy converter
- 609 m
Longcause Community Special School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,047
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 513
- Criminal damage and arson 100
- Anti social behaviour 97
- Shoplifting 87
- Other theft 76
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL7 2 residents
- 10,664
Age bands in PL7 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
1,824 residents
996 residents
2,765 residents
2,735 residents
1,937 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
BEACON MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83100
192 m
PATHFIELDS MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83008
192 m
ELM SURGERY
123 LEYPARK WALK, ESTOVER, PLYMOUTH, PL6 8UF
ODS code L83019
4.0 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
30 HOLLAND ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9BN
ODS code L83064
4.2 km
DEAN CROSS SURGERY
21 RADFORD PARK ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9DL
ODS code L83021
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Ridgeway Shops
BCT · Plympton
- 0.0 miles
Ridgeway Garage
BCT · Plympton
- 0.1 miles
Ridgeway Academy
BCT · Plympton
- 0.1 miles
Ridgeway Masonic Hall
BCT · Plympton
- 0.1 miles
Dark Street Lane
BCT · Plympton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Plymouth 022C, 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
7,278 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,047 published events cover 12 months, averaging 87.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 513 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.