Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 6 secondary schools. Kings Ash Academy is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ3 1WB
Preston · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ3 1WB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 February 2003
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ3
- Postcode sector
- TQ3 1
- Latitude
- 50.451946
- Longitude
- -3.578745
- British National Grid easting
- 288,017
- British National Grid northing
- 62,538
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
- E00076942
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 011C · E01015226
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.4 km
Kings Ash Academy
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Oldway Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Brunel School
Academy special sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,508
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 639
- Shoplifting 238
- Criminal damage and arson 127
- Other theft 122
- Anti social behaviour 104
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ3 1 residents
- 8,435
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
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
7
within 5 km straight-line
PEMBROKE MEDICAL GROUP
PEMBROKE HOUSE, 266-276 TORQUAY ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 2EZ
ODS code L83131
1.5 km
OLD FARM SURGERY
67 FOXHOLE ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 3TB
ODS code L83607
1.5 km
MAYFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 TOTNES ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5LA
ODS code L83014
2.2 km
CORNER PLACE SURGERY
46A DARTMOUTH ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5AH
ODS code L83103
2.2 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
3.5 km
SOUTHOVER MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRONSHILL ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ1 3HD
ODS code L83029
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Manaton Tor Road
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
Cranford Road
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
147 Occombe Valley Road
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
126 Occombe Valley Road
BCT · Preston
- 0.2 miles
Dolphin Court
BCT · Preston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 011C, 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
24,645 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
1,508 published events cover 12 months, averaging 125.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 639 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.