Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Spires College is the nearest published school at 83 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ1 3YW
Ellacombe · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ1 3YW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ1
- Postcode sector
- TQ1 3
- Latitude
- 50.475025
- Longitude
- -3.522617
- British National Grid easting
- 292,054
- British National Grid northing
- 65,021
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- Ellacombe · E05012259
- Parish or community
- E43000022
- Westminster constituency
- Torbay · E14001551
- Output area
- E00076896
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 006D · E01015218
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 006 · E02003159
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 83 m
The Spires College
Foundation school
- 464 m
Ellacombe Church of England Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 528 m
All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,361
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,417
- Anti social behaviour 585
- Criminal damage and arson 477
- Other theft 393
- Shoplifting 369
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ1 3 residents
- 9,449
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
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
SOUTHOVER MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRONSHILL ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ1 3HD
ODS code L83029
390 m
BRUNEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
ST. ALBANS ROAD, BABBACOMBE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3SL
ODS code L83013
625 m
CHILCOTE PRACTICE
CHILCOTE SURGERY, DEWERSTONE PRACTICE, HAMPTON AVENUE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3LA
ODS code L83111
857 m
CROFT HALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 CROFT ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ2 5UA
ODS code L83027
1.3 km
CHELSTON HALL SURGERY
OLD MILL ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6HW
ODS code L83118
2.2 km
PEMBROKE MEDICAL GROUP
PEMBROKE HOUSE, 266-276 TORQUAY ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 2EZ
ODS code L83131
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hingston Road
BCT · Ellacombe
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Road 108
BCT · Ellacombe
- 0.1 miles
Westlands School
BCT · Plainmoor
- 0.2 miles
Westlands School
BCT · Plainmoor
- 0.2 miles
Quinta Road
BCT · Babbacombe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 006D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,550 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,361 published events cover 12 months, averaging 446.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,417 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.