Property market
The five-year median is £580,000 from 5 recorded sales in TQ1 3TP. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Torbay is £223,577 in June 2026, down 0.9% year on year.
TQ1 3TP
Wellswood · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ1 3TP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ1
- Postcode sector
- TQ1 3
- Latitude
- 50.470725
- Longitude
- -3.510247
- British National Grid easting
- 292,922
- British National Grid northing
- 64,525
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- Wellswood · E05012269
- Parish or community
- E43000022
- Westminster constituency
- Torbay · E14001551
- Output area
- E00077175
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 010C · E01015269
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 010 · E02003163
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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Den Brook Close, Torquay, TQ1 3TP | 8 August 2025 | £550,000 |
| 10, Den Brook Close, Torquay, TQ1 3TP | 18 October 2024 | £655,000 |
| 1, Den Brook Close, Torquay, TQ1 3TP | 23 February 2023 | £580,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 5
- 481 m
Ilsham Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 509 m
All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 574 m
Warberry CofE Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,215
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,477
- Anti social behaviour 351
- Shoplifting 272
- Criminal damage and arson 268
- Other theft 217
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- TQ1 3 residents
- 9,449
13 female, 8 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+
- 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 straight-line
BRUNEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
ST. ALBANS ROAD, BABBACOMBE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3SL
ODS code L83013
1.1 km
SOUTHOVER MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRONSHILL ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ1 3HD
ODS code L83029
1.3 km
CHILCOTE PRACTICE
CHILCOTE SURGERY, DEWERSTONE PRACTICE, HAMPTON AVENUE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3LA
ODS code L83111
1.5 km
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
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Babbacombe Road
BCT · Wellswood
- 0.2 miles
Warberry Copse
BCT · Ellacombe
- 0.2 miles
Warberry Copse
BCT · Ellacombe
- 0.2 miles
Palace Hotel
BCT · Wellswood
- 0.2 miles
Middle Warberry Road
BCT · Wellswood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 010C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,994 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
28 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Ilsham Church of England Academy is the nearest published school at 481 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,215 published events cover 12 months, averaging 267.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,477 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.