Property market
The five-year median is £267,500 from 1 recorded sale in PL8 2BE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for South Hams is £360,571 in June 2026, down 6.8% year on year.
PL8 2BE
Wembury & Brixton · South Hams · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Plymouth
- Ward
- Wembury & Brixton
- Local authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon
- Postcode district
- PL8
- Postcode sector
- PL8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL8 2BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL8
- Postcode sector
- PL8 2
- Latitude
- 50.348800
- Longitude
- -4.052374
- British National Grid easting
- 254,079
- British National Grid northing
- 51,892
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- South Hams · E07000044
- Electoral ward
- Wembury & Brixton · E05010145
- Parish or community
- E04003135
- Westminster constituency
- South West Devon · E14001495
- Output area
- E00181104
- Lower layer super output area
- South Hams 009D · E01020187
- Middle layer super output area
- South Hams 009 · E02004197
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Hill Cottages, Brixton, Plymouth, PL8 2BE | 11 September 2025 | £267,500 |
| 1, Hill Cottages, Brixton, Plymouth, PL8 2BE | 4 June 2015 | £140,000 |
| 1, Hill Cottages, Brixton, Plymouth, PL8 2BE | 30 August 2002 | £120,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.1 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.5 km
Elburton Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Sherford Vale School & Nursery
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 132
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 74
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Other theft 10
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Burglary 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- PL8 2 residents
- 3,999
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in PL8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.6%
625 residents
330 residents
681 residents
1,087 residents
1,146 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PL8 2 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
6
within 5 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
30 HOLLAND ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9BN
ODS code L83064
2.6 km
DEAN CROSS SURGERY
21 RADFORD PARK ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9DL
ODS code L83021
3.3 km
WEMBURY SURGERY
51 HAWTHORN DRIVE, WEMBURY, PLYMOUTH, PL9 0BE
ODS code L83639
3.3 km
YEALM MEDICAL CENTRE
MARKET STREET, YEALMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL8 2EA
ODS code L83081
3.9 km
BEACON MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83100
4.2 km
PATHFIELDS MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83008
4.2 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Combe Lane
BCT · Brixton
- 0.3 miles
Combe Lane
BCT · Brixton
- 0.4 miles
Rogers Garage
BCT · Combe
- 0.4 miles
Rogers Garage
BCT · Combe
- 0.4 miles
Sutherland Cottages
BCT · Brixton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Hams 009D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,092 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Mary's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
132 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 74 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.