Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. Brunel School is the nearest published school at 307 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ3 2NP
Preston · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ3 2NP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ3
- Postcode sector
- TQ3 2
- Latitude
- 50.441959
- Longitude
- -3.560343
- British National Grid easting
- 289,300
- British National Grid northing
- 61,400
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
- E00076932
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 014A · E01015229
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 014 · E02003167
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
- 32
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 307 m
Brunel School
Academy special sponsor led
- 468 m
Preston Bridge School
Other independent special school
- 612 m
Oldway Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,727
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,120
- Shoplifting 327
- Anti social behaviour 309
- Criminal damage and arson 237
- Other theft 220
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ3 2 residents
- 9,006
Age bands in TQ3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.1%
1,265 residents
762 residents
1,762 residents
2,396 residents
2,669 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
395 m
CORNER PLACE SURGERY
46A DARTMOUTH ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5AH
ODS code L83103
1.1 km
MAYFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 TOTNES ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5LA
ODS code L83014
1.1 km
OLD FARM SURGERY
67 FOXHOLE ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 3TB
ODS code L83607
1.8 km
CHELSTON HALL SURGERY
OLD MILL ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6HW
ODS code L83118
2.5 km
CROFT HALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 CROFT ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ2 5UA
ODS code L83027
3.3 km
SOUTHOVER MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRONSHILL ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ1 3HD
ODS code L83029
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Redcliffe Hotel
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
Tembani Court
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
Redcliffe Lodge
BCT · Paignton
- 0.2 miles
Redcliffe Lodge
BCT · Paignton
- 0.2 miles
Manor Corner
BCT · Preston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 014A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,313 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
2,727 published events cover 12 months, averaging 227.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,120 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.