Property market
The five-year median is £388,750 from 8 recorded sales in TQ3 1PY. 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.
TQ3 1PY
Preston · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ3 1PY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ3
- Postcode sector
- TQ3 1
- Latitude
- 50.446279
- Longitude
- -3.571471
- British National Grid easting
- 288,520
- British National Grid northing
- 61,897
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- Preston · E05012263
- Parish or community
- E43000022
- Westminster constituency
- Torbay · E14001551
- Output area
- E00076960
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 011D · E01015227
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 011 · E02003164
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 TQ3
Property
47 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Barcombe Road, Preston, Paignton, TQ3 1PY | 12 December 2025 | £372,500 |
| 52, Barcombe Road, Preston, Paignton, TQ3 1PY | 14 August 2024 | £405,000 |
| 22, Barcombe Road, Preston, Paignton, TQ3 1PY | 26 July 2024 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 618 m
Oldway Primary School
Academy converter
- 628 m
Brunel School
Academy special sponsor led
- 718 m
Preston Bridge School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,208
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,325
- Shoplifting 480
- Anti social behaviour 329
- Criminal damage and arson 262
- Other theft 226
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 66
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- TQ3 1 residents
- 8,435
34 female, 32 male
Age bands in TQ3 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.7%
1,140 residents
736 residents
1,575 residents
2,499 residents
2,641 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TQ3 1 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
PEMBROKE MEDICAL GROUP
PEMBROKE HOUSE, 266-276 TORQUAY ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 2EZ
ODS code L83131
801 m
OLD FARM SURGERY
67 FOXHOLE ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 3TB
ODS code L83607
1.3 km
MAYFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 TOTNES ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5LA
ODS code L83014
1.4 km
CORNER PLACE SURGERY
46A DARTMOUTH ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5AH
ODS code L83103
1.5 km
CHELSTON HALL SURGERY
OLD MILL ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6HW
ODS code L83118
2.6 km
CROFT HALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 CROFT ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ2 5UA
ODS code L83027
3.4 km
SOUTHOVER MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRONSHILL ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ1 3HD
ODS code L83029
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Barcombe Road
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
Lammas Lane
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
Shorton Valley Road
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
Shorton Valley Road
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
Shorton Woods
BCT · Preston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 011D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,570 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. Oldway Primary School is the nearest published school at 618 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,208 published events cover 12 months, averaging 267.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,325 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.