Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. South Devon UTC is the nearest published school at 372 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ12 2SW
Bushell · Teignbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bushell
- Local authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot
- Postcode district
- TQ12
- Postcode sector
- TQ12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ12 2SW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2007
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ12
- Postcode sector
- TQ12 2
- Latitude
- 50.536726
- Longitude
- -3.607961
- British National Grid easting
- 286,147
- British National Grid northing
- 72,009
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Teignbridge · E07000045
- Electoral ward
- Bushell · E05011898
- Parish or community
- E04013236
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Abbot · E14001381
- Output area
- E00102401
- Lower layer super output area
- Teignbridge 014B · E01020217
- Middle layer super output area
- Teignbridge 014 · E02004214
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 TQ12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 372 m
South Devon UTC
University technical college
- 590 m
Newton Abbot College
Academy converter
- 643 m
All Saints Marsh CofE Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,958
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 833
- Shoplifting 286
- Anti social behaviour 229
- Criminal damage and arson 159
- Other theft 135
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ12 2 residents
- 5,413
Age bands in TQ12 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
750 residents
570 residents
1,338 residents
1,395 residents
993 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
CRICKETFIELD SURGERY
CRICKETFIELD ROAD, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 2AS
ODS code L83051
537 m
DEVON SQUARE SURGERY
44 DEVON SQUARE, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 2HH
ODS code L83046
777 m
ALBANY SURGERY
GRACE HOUSE, SCOTT CLOSE, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 1GJ
ODS code L83034
897 m
KINGSTEIGNTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, WHITEWAY ROAD, KINGSTEIGNTON, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 3HN
ODS code L83004
1.6 km
BUCKLAND SURGERY
1 RALEIGH ROAD, BUCKLAND, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 4HG
ODS code L83666
1.6 km
KINGSKERSWELL & IPPLEPEN MED PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, SCHOOL ROAD, KINGSKERSWELL, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 5DJ
ODS code L83031
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Jetty Marsh
BCT · Newton Abbot
- 0.2 miles
Jetty Marsh
BCT · Newton Abbot
- 0.2 miles
Sandford View
BCT · Knowles Hill
- 0.2 miles
Sandford View
BCT · Knowles Hill
- 0.3 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Newton Abbot
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Teignbridge 014B, 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
9,477 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
1,958 published events cover 12 months, averaging 163.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 833 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.