Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. Paignton Academy is the nearest published school at 478 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ3 3JY
Clifton with Maidenway · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ3 3JY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ3
- Postcode sector
- TQ3 3
- Latitude
- 50.433824
- Longitude
- -3.582578
- British National Grid easting
- 287,702
- British National Grid northing
- 60,529
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- Clifton with Maidenway · E05012256
- Parish or community
- E43000022
- Westminster constituency
- Torbay · E14001551
- Output area
- E00076821
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 012D · E01015205
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 012 · E02003165
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
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Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 141, Clifton Road, Paignton, TQ3 3JY | 20 March 2020 | £280,000 |
| 137, Clifton Road, Paignton, TQ3 3JY | 14 May 2018 | £266,000 |
| 137, Clifton Road, Paignton, TQ3 3JY | 23 September 2016 | £224,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 478 m
Paignton Academy
Academy converter
- 560 m
Hayes School
Academy converter
- 901 m
St Michael's Church of England Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,601
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,553
- Shoplifting 461
- Anti social behaviour 358
- Criminal damage and arson 295
- Other theft 280
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- TQ3 3 residents
- 15,190
5 female, 4 male
Age bands in TQ3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
2,776 residents
1,663 residents
3,594 residents
3,999 residents
2,906 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TQ3 3 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 straight-line
OLD FARM SURGERY
67 FOXHOLE ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 3TB
ODS code L83607
568 m
MAYFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 TOTNES ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5LA
ODS code L83014
934 m
CORNER PLACE SURGERY
46A DARTMOUTH ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5AH
ODS code L83103
1.1 km
PEMBROKE MEDICAL GROUP
PEMBROKE HOUSE, 266-276 TORQUAY ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 2EZ
ODS code L83131
2.0 km
CHELSTON HALL SURGERY
OLD MILL ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6HW
ODS code L83118
4.1 km
CROFT HALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 CROFT ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ2 5UA
ODS code L83027
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Waterleat Avenue 138
BCT · Paignton
- 0.0 miles
Waterleat Close
BCT · Paignton
- 0.1 miles
Clifton Road
BCT · Paignton
- 0.1 miles
Clifton Road
BCT · Paignton
- 0.1 miles
Colley End Road
BCT · Paignton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 012D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,238 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Recorded crime
3,601 published events cover 12 months, averaging 300.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,553 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.