Property market
The five-year median is £172,500 from 4 recorded sales in TQ3 2PS. 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 2PS
Preston · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ3 2PS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ3
- Postcode sector
- TQ3 2
- Latitude
- 50.441297
- Longitude
- -3.564771
- British National Grid easting
- 288,984
- British National Grid northing
- 61,333
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
- E00076931
- 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
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 15, Mead Close, Paignton, TQ3 2PS | 30 March 2026 | £135,000 |
| 5, Mead Close, Paignton, TQ3 2PS | 17 December 2025 | £185,000 |
| 9, Mead Close, Paignton, TQ3 2PS | 6 June 2025 | £160,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 150 m
Preston Bridge School
Other independent special school
- 177 m
Brunel School
Academy special sponsor led
- 289 m
Oldway Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,299
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,351
- Shoplifting 473
- Anti social behaviour 345
- Criminal damage and arson 281
- Other theft 247
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- TQ3 2 residents
- 9,006
12 female, 5 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TQ3 2 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
PEMBROKE MEDICAL GROUP
PEMBROKE HOUSE, 266-276 TORQUAY ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 2EZ
ODS code L83131
568 m
CORNER PLACE SURGERY
46A DARTMOUTH ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5AH
ODS code L83103
906 m
MAYFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 TOTNES ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5LA
ODS code L83014
934 m
OLD FARM SURGERY
67 FOXHOLE ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 3TB
ODS code L83607
1.5 km
CHELSTON HALL SURGERY
OLD MILL ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6HW
ODS code L83118
2.7 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
4.5 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
- 0.1 miles
Christ Church
BCT · Paignton
- 0.1 miles
Oldway Mansion
BCT · Preston
- 0.1 miles
Christ Church
BCT · Paignton
- 0.1 miles
Oldway Mansion
BCT · Preston
- 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.
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
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Preston Bridge School is the nearest published school at 150 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,299 published events cover 12 months, averaging 274.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,351 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.