Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Holbeton Primary School is the nearest published school at 172 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL8 1YX
Newton & Yealmpton · South Hams · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Newton & Yealmpton
- Local authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon
- Postcode district
- PL8
- Postcode sector
- PL8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL8 1YX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL8
- Postcode sector
- PL8 1
- Latitude
- 50.333564
- Longitude
- -3.948840
- British National Grid easting
- 261,400
- British National Grid northing
- 50,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- South Hams · E07000044
- Electoral ward
- Newton & Yealmpton · E05010140
- Parish or community
- E04003154
- Westminster constituency
- South West Devon · E14001495
- Output area
- E00102089
- Lower layer super output area
- South Hams 008C · E01020159
- Middle layer super output area
- South Hams 008 · E02004196
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 PL8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 172 m
Holbeton Primary School
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- 3.9 km
Ermington Primary School
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- 4.3 km
Yealmpton Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL8 1 residents
- 2,131
Age bands in PL8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.3%
285 residents
157 residents
346 residents
759 residents
844 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
YEALM MEDICAL CENTRE
MARKET STREET, YEALMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL8 2EA
ODS code L83081
3.9 km
MODBURY HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, POUNDWELL MEADOW, MODBURY, IVYBRIDGE, PL21 0QL
ODS code L83086
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mildmay Colours Inn
BCT · Holbeton
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Holbeton
- 0.3 miles
White House
BCT · Holbeton
- 0.3 miles
White House
BCT · Holbeton
- 1.0 miles
Saw Mills
BCT · Holbeton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Hams 008C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,239 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.