Property market
The five-year median is £236,000 from 3 recorded sales in TQ2 8BL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Torbay is £223,577 in June 2026, down 0.9% year on year.
TQ2 8BL
Barton with Watcombe · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ2 8BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ2
- Postcode sector
- TQ2 8
- Latitude
- 50.490646
- Longitude
- -3.530986
- British National Grid easting
- 291,496
- British National Grid northing
- 66,770
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
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 70, Fore Street, Barton, Torquay, TQ2 8BL | 15 March 2024 | £242,000 |
| 76, Fore Street, Barton, Torquay, TQ2 8BL | 20 January 2023 | £236,000 |
| 76a, Fore Street, Barton, Torquay, TQ2 8BL | 6 September 2022 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 515 m
Combe Pafford School
Academy special converter
- 555 m
Watcombe Primary School
Community school
- 699 m
Lift Barton Hill
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,025
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 951
- Shoplifting 216
- Anti social behaviour 193
- Criminal damage and arson 181
- Other theft 140
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 39
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- TQ2 8 residents
- 8,677
18 female, 21 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TQ2 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
6
within 5 km
CHILCOTE PRACTICE
CHILCOTE SURGERY, DEWERSTONE PRACTICE, HAMPTON AVENUE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3LA
ODS code L83111
1.2 km
BRUNEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
ST. ALBANS ROAD, BABBACOMBE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3SL
ODS code L83013
1.6 km
SOUTHOVER MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRONSHILL ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ1 3HD
ODS code L83029
1.8 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
3.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Fore Street 51
BCT · Watcombe
- 0.0 miles
Medway Road
BCT · Watcombe
- 0.0 miles
76A Fore Street
BCT · Watcombe
- 0.0 miles
Pafford Avenue
BCT · Watcombe
- 0.1 miles
Halsteads Rd
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.
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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- 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
Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Combe Pafford School is the nearest published school at 515 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,025 published events cover 12 months, averaging 168.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 951 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.