Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 6 secondary schools. Plympton Academy is the nearest published school at 159 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL7 3HN
Plympton Erle · Plymouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Plympton Erle
- Local authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon
- Postcode district
- PL7
- Postcode sector
- PL7 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL7 3HN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL7
- Postcode sector
- PL7 3
- Latitude
- 50.387204
- Longitude
- -4.049909
- British National Grid easting
- 254,372
- British National Grid northing
- 56,157
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
- 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
- 33
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 6
- 159 m
Plympton Academy
Academy converter
- 516 m
St Mary's Priory Junior School
Academy converter
- 532 m
Longcause Community Special School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,081
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 535
- Anti social behaviour 101
- Criminal damage and arson 100
- Shoplifting 85
- Other theft 77
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
BEACON MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83100
221 m
PATHFIELDS MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83008
221 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 Garage
BCT · Plympton
- 0.0 miles
Ridgeway Masonic Hall
BCT · Plympton
- 0.1 miles
Ridgeway Shops
BCT · Plympton
- 0.1 miles
Ridgeway Academy
BCT · Plympton
- 0.1 miles
Ridgeway School
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
1,081 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 535 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.