Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Wembury Primary School is the nearest published school at 601 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PL9 0LJ
Wembury & Brixton · South Hams · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wembury & Brixton
- Local authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon
- Postcode district
- PL9
- Postcode sector
- PL9 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL9 0LJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1998
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL9
- Postcode sector
- PL9 0
- Latitude
- 50.323289
- Longitude
- -4.074864
- British National Grid easting
- 252,400
- British National Grid northing
- 49,100
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
- E04003185
- Westminster constituency
- South West Devon · E14001495
- Output area
- E00102254
- Lower layer super output area
- South Hams 009B · E01020185
- 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 PL9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 601 m
Wembury Primary School
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- 2.9 km
Newton Ferrers Church of England Primary School
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- 3.5 km
Coombe Dean School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 46
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 31
- Burglary 3
- Other crime 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL9 0 residents
- 2,948
Age bands in PL9 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 5.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 39.1%
337 residents
162 residents
436 residents
808 residents
1,118 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
WEMBURY SURGERY
51 HAWTHORN DRIVE, WEMBURY, PLYMOUTH, PL9 0BE
ODS code L83639
228 m
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
30 HOLLAND ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9BN
ODS code L83064
3.8 km
DEAN CROSS SURGERY
21 RADFORD PARK ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9DL
ODS code L83021
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sea View Drive
BCT · Wembury
- 0.1 miles
Hawthorn Drive
BCT · Wembury
- 0.1 miles
Hawthorn Drive
BCT · Wembury
- 0.1 miles
Mewstone Avenue Bottom
BCT · Wembury
- 0.1 miles
Southland Park Road
BCT · Wembury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Hams 009B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,363 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
46 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 31 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.