Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 0 secondary schools. Yealmpton Primary School is the nearest published school at 665 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL8 2HN
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL8 2HN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2009
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL8
- Postcode sector
- PL8 2
- Latitude
- 50.345242
- Longitude
- -3.996349
- British National Grid easting
- 258,054
- British National Grid northing
- 51,388
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
- E04003189
- Westminster constituency
- South West Devon · E14001495
- Output area
- E00102271
- Lower layer super output area
- South Hams 008D · E01020190
- 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
- 6
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 0
- 665 m
Yealmpton Primary School
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- 2.9 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.6 km
Holbeton Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 55
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 22
- Other theft 7
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Burglary 6
- Shoplifting 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL8 2 residents
- 3,999
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
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
1
within 5 km straight-line
YEALM MEDICAL CENTRE
MARKET STREET, YEALMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL8 2EA
ODS code L83081
382 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Dixon Terrace
BCT · Yealmpton
- 0.0 miles
Ploughman Way
BCT · Yealmpton
- 0.1 miles
Riverside Walk
BCT · Yealmpton
- 0.1 miles
Boldventure
BCT · Yealmpton
- 0.2 miles
Hillside Drive
BCT · Yealmpton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Hams 008D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,227 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
55 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 22 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.