Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. Coombeshead Academy is the nearest published school at 586 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ12 6PP
Bushell · Teignbridge · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newton Abbot
- Ward
- Bushell
- Local authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot
- Postcode district
- TQ12
- Postcode sector
- TQ12 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ12 6PP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ12
- Postcode sector
- TQ12 6
- Latitude
- 50.539935
- Longitude
- -3.616552
- British National Grid easting
- 285,546
- British National Grid northing
- 72,379
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
- E00165895
- Lower layer super output area
- Teignbridge 012D · E01020219
- Middle layer super output area
- Teignbridge 012 · E02004212
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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Fair Acres, Exeter Road, Newton Abbot, TQ12 6PP | 19 November 2020 | £525,000 |
| Treetops, Exeter Road, Newton Abbot, TQ12 6PP | 17 September 2010 | £310,000 |
| Fair Acres, Exeter Road, Newton Abbot, TQ12 6PP | 23 October 2009 | £440,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 586 m
Coombeshead Academy
Academy converter
- 674 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 730 m
Newton Abbot College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,688
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 710
- Shoplifting 277
- Anti social behaviour 193
- Criminal damage and arson 135
- Other theft 113
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- TQ12 6 residents
- 9,170
3 female, 5 male
Age bands in TQ12 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
1,439 residents
946 residents
2,431 residents
2,795 residents
2,144 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TQ12 6 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+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CRICKETFIELD SURGERY
CRICKETFIELD ROAD, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 2AS
ODS code L83051
1.1 km
DEVON SQUARE SURGERY
44 DEVON SQUARE, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 2HH
ODS code L83046
1.4 km
ALBANY SURGERY
GRACE HOUSE, SCOTT CLOSE, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 1GJ
ODS code L83034
1.4 km
KINGSTEIGNTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, WHITEWAY ROAD, KINGSTEIGNTON, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 3HN
ODS code L83004
1.7 km
BUCKLAND SURGERY
1 RALEIGH ROAD, BUCKLAND, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 4HG
ODS code L83666
2.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Whitehill Close
BCT · Knowles Hill
- 0.1 miles
Church Walk Estate
BCT · Highweek
- 0.1 miles
Church Walk Estate
BCT · Highweek
- 0.2 miles
Newton Abbot Hospital
BCT · Knowles Hill
- 0.2 miles
Sandford View
BCT · Knowles Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Teignbridge 012D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,613 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Recorded crime
1,688 published events cover 12 months, averaging 140.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 710 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.