Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Abbey School is the nearest published school at 171 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ1 3SD
St Marychurch · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ1 3SD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ1
- Postcode sector
- TQ1 3
- Latitude
- 50.480694
- Longitude
- -3.521051
- British National Grid easting
- 292,178
- British National Grid northing
- 65,649
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- St Marychurch · E05012265
- Parish or community
- E43000022
- Westminster constituency
- Torbay · E14001551
- Output area
- E00076995
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 002D · E01015239
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 002 · E02003155
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 TQ1
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Lindridge Road, Torquay, TQ1 3SD | 20 September 2002 | £193,000 |
| 4, Lindridge Road, Torquay, TQ1 3SD | 25 March 1999 | £58,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 171 m
Abbey School
Other independent school
- 449 m
Priory Roman Catholic Primary School, Torquay
Academy converter
- 472 m
St Margaret's Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,796
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,372
- Anti social behaviour 291
- Criminal damage and arson 261
- Other theft 193
- Shoplifting 166
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 0.9
- TQ1 3 residents
- 9,449
17 female, 2 male
Age bands in TQ1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.1%
1,333 residents
916 residents
1,980 residents
2,707 residents
2,847 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TQ1 3 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+
- 93.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 93.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 93.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 3.3%
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
7
within 5 km straight-line
CHILCOTE PRACTICE
CHILCOTE SURGERY, DEWERSTONE PRACTICE, HAMPTON AVENUE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3LA
ODS code L83111
219 m
BRUNEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
ST. ALBANS ROAD, BABBACOMBE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3SL
ODS code L83013
327 m
SOUTHOVER MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRONSHILL ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ1 3HD
ODS code L83029
831 m
CROFT HALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 CROFT ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ2 5UA
ODS code L83027
1.9 km
CHELSTON HALL SURGERY
OLD MILL ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6HW
ODS code L83118
2.7 km
PEMBROKE MEDICAL GROUP
PEMBROKE HOUSE, 266-276 TORQUAY ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 2EZ
ODS code L83131
4.8 km
KINGSKERSWELL & IPPLEPEN MED PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, SCHOOL ROAD, KINGSKERSWELL, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 5DJ
ODS code L83031
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hampton Avenue
BCT · St Marychurch
- 0.0 miles
United Reformed Church
BCT · St Marychurch
- 0.0 miles
Town Hall
BCT · St Marychurch
- 0.1 miles
Model Village
BCT · St Marychurch
- 0.1 miles
Chilcote Memorial
BCT · St Marychurch
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 002D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,576 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
Recorded crime
2,796 published events cover 12 months, averaging 233 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,372 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.