Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Combe Pafford School is the nearest published school at 497 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ2 8BH
Barton with Watcombe · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ2 8BH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2009
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ2
- Postcode sector
- TQ2 8
- Latitude
- 50.490165
- Longitude
- -3.528574
- British National Grid easting
- 291,666
- British National Grid northing
- 66,713
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- Barton with Watcombe · E05012254
- Parish or community
- E43000022
- Westminster constituency
- Torbay · E14001551
- Output area
- E00077138
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 001E · E01015266
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 001 · E02003154
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 TQ2
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse 2, Pavor Road, Torquay, TQ2 8BH | 2 November 2007 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 497 m
Combe Pafford School
Academy special converter
- 589 m
Watcombe Primary School
Community school
- 644 m
St Marychurch Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,878
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 955
- Criminal damage and arson 186
- Anti social behaviour 185
- Other theft 131
- Shoplifting 94
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ2 8 residents
- 8,677
Age bands in TQ2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
1,503 residents
838 residents
1,839 residents
2,093 residents
1,849 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
CHILCOTE PRACTICE
CHILCOTE SURGERY, DEWERSTONE PRACTICE, HAMPTON AVENUE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3LA
ODS code L83111
1.0 km
BRUNEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
ST. ALBANS ROAD, BABBACOMBE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3SL
ODS code L83013
1.5 km
SOUTHOVER MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRONSHILL ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ1 3HD
ODS code L83029
1.7 km
CROFT HALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 CROFT ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ2 5UA
ODS code L83027
2.7 km
CHELSTON HALL SURGERY
OLD MILL ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6HW
ODS code L83118
3.3 km
KINGSKERSWELL & IPPLEPEN MED PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, SCHOOL ROAD, KINGSKERSWELL, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 5DJ
ODS code L83031
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Pavor Road
BCT · Watcombe
- 0.0 miles
Pavor Road
BCT · Watcombe
- 0.0 miles
Pavor Road
BCT · Watcombe
- 0.1 miles
Medway Road
BCT · Watcombe
- 0.1 miles
Fore Street 51
BCT · Watcombe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 001E, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,786 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,878 published events cover 12 months, averaging 156.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 955 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.