Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. Rydon Primary School is the nearest published school at 244 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ12 3ZD
Kingsteignton East · Teignbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Kingsteignton East
- Local authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot
- Postcode district
- TQ12
- Postcode sector
- TQ12 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ12 3ZD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ12
- Postcode sector
- TQ12 3
- Latitude
- 50.551983
- Longitude
- -3.594618
- British National Grid easting
- 287,129
- British National Grid northing
- 73,685
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Teignbridge · E07000045
- Electoral ward
- Kingsteignton East · E05011908
- Parish or community
- E04003219
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Abbot · E14001381
- Output area
- E00102579
- Lower layer super output area
- Teignbridge 009A · E01020250
- Middle layer super output area
- Teignbridge 009 · E02004209
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
- 244 m
Rydon Primary School
Academy converter
- 567 m
Teign School
Academy converter
- 668 m
St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 596
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 260
- Anti social behaviour 82
- Criminal damage and arson 61
- Other theft 53
- Shoplifting 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ12 3 residents
- 12,136
Age bands in TQ12 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
2,006 residents
1,097 residents
2,832 residents
3,324 residents
2,682 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
KINGSTEIGNTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, WHITEWAY ROAD, KINGSTEIGNTON, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 3HN
ODS code L83004
389 m
CRICKETFIELD SURGERY
CRICKETFIELD ROAD, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 2AS
ODS code L83051
2.4 km
BUCKLAND SURGERY
1 RALEIGH ROAD, BUCKLAND, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 4HG
ODS code L83666
2.5 km
DEVON SQUARE SURGERY
44 DEVON SQUARE, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 2HH
ODS code L83046
2.6 km
ALBANY SURGERY
GRACE HOUSE, SCOTT CLOSE, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 1GJ
ODS code L83034
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rydon Estate
BCT · Rydon
- 0.1 miles
Rydon Estate
BCT · Rydon
- 0.1 miles
Ley Lane
BCT · Rydon
- 0.1 miles
Ley Lane
BCT · Rydon
- 0.2 miles
Captains Road
BCT · Rydon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Teignbridge 009A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,982 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
596 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 260 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.