Property market
The five-year median is £265,000 from 3 recorded sales in PL9 8YU. 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.
PL9 8YU
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
- PL9
- Postcode sector
- PL9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PL9 8YU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PL
- Postcode district
- PL9
- Postcode sector
- PL9 8
- Latitude
- 50.368735
- Longitude
- -4.045499
- British National Grid easting
- 254,629
- British National Grid northing
- 54,095
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
- E00181173
- 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 PL9
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Aurora Drive, Sherford, Plymouth, PL9 8YU | 31 October 2023 | £263,500 |
| 8, Aurora Drive, Sherford, Plymouth, PL9 8YU | 27 October 2023 | £275,000 |
| 4, Aurora Drive, Sherford, Plymouth, PL9 8YU | 31 August 2023 | £265,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 802 m
Sherford Vale School & Nursery
Free schools
- 1.3 km
Plympton St Maurice Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Yealmpstone Farm Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 362
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 191
- Anti social behaviour 47
- Other theft 30
- Public order 29
- Criminal damage and arson 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PL9 8 residents
- 9,625
Age bands in PL9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.9%
1,564 residents
903 residents
2,015 residents
2,514 residents
2,848 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.
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
5
within 5 km
BEACON MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83100
2.0 km
PATHFIELDS MEDICAL GROUP
PLYMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, MUDGE WAY, PLYMOUTH, PL7 1AD
ODS code L83008
2.0 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
30 HOLLAND ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9BN
ODS code L83064
3.2 km
DEAN CROSS SURGERY
21 RADFORD PARK ROAD, PLYMSTOCK, PLYMOUTH, PL9 9DL
ODS code L83021
3.7 km
YEALM MEDICAL CENTRE
MARKET STREET, YEALMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PL8 2EA
ODS code L83081
4.1 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
Sherford Vale School
BCT · Sherford
- 0.3 miles
Sherford Vale School
BCT · Sherford
- 0.5 miles
Hercules Road West
BCT · Sherford
- 0.5 miles
Hercules Road West
BCT · Sherford
- 0.6 miles
Candish Drive East
BCT · Elburton
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.
Evidence in context
Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Sherford Vale School & Nursery is the nearest published school at 802 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
362 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 191 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.