Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 6 secondary schools. Decoy Primary School is the nearest published school at 823 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ12 5GL
Ambrook · Teignbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ambrook
- Local authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot
- Postcode district
- TQ12
- Postcode sector
- TQ12 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ12 5GL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ12
- Postcode sector
- TQ12 5
- Latitude
- 50.512245
- Longitude
- -3.594210
- British National Grid easting
- 287,063
- British National Grid northing
- 69,266
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Teignbridge · E07000045
- Electoral ward
- Ambrook · E05011892
- Parish or community
- E04012121
- Westminster constituency
- Newton Abbot · E14001381
- Output area
- E00102281
- Lower layer super output area
- Teignbridge 019A · E01020192
- Middle layer super output area
- Teignbridge 019 · E02004219
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
- 30
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 6
- 823 m
Decoy Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Abbotskerswell Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Kingskerswell Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 376
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 153
- Anti social behaviour 43
- Criminal damage and arson 35
- Other theft 33
- Public order 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ12 5 residents
- 9,013
Age bands in TQ12 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.6%
1,232 residents
805 residents
1,582 residents
2,757 residents
2,946 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
KINGSKERSWELL & IPPLEPEN MED PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, SCHOOL ROAD, KINGSKERSWELL, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 5DJ
ODS code L83031
1.6 km
BUCKLAND SURGERY
1 RALEIGH ROAD, BUCKLAND, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 4HG
ODS code L83666
2.0 km
ALBANY SURGERY
GRACE HOUSE, SCOTT CLOSE, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 1GJ
ODS code L83034
2.1 km
DEVON SQUARE SURGERY
44 DEVON SQUARE, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 2HH
ODS code L83046
2.1 km
CRICKETFIELD SURGERY
CRICKETFIELD ROAD, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 2AS
ODS code L83051
2.4 km
KINGSTEIGNTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, WHITEWAY ROAD, KINGSTEIGNTON, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 3HN
ODS code L83004
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Aller Brake Road Bottom
BCT · Aller Park
- 0.5 miles
Aller Brake Road Bottom
BCT · Aller Park
- 0.5 miles
Aller Brake Road
BCT · Aller Park
- 0.5 miles
Aller Brake Road
BCT · Aller Park
- 0.6 miles
Addison Road
BCT · Milber
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Teignbridge 019A, 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
25,282 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
376 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 153 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.