Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Kings Ash Academy is the nearest published school at 567 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ3 3NR
King's Ash · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- King's Ash
- Local authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon
- Postcode district
- TQ3
- Postcode sector
- TQ3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ3 3NR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ3
- Postcode sector
- TQ3 3
- Latitude
- 50.441673
- Longitude
- -3.581459
- British National Grid easting
- 287,800
- British National Grid northing
- 61,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- King's Ash · E05012262
- Parish or community
- E43000022
- Westminster constituency
- South Devon · E14001484
- Output area
- E00076764
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 013D · E01015193
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 013 · E02003166
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
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 567 m
Kings Ash Academy
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- 895 m
Sacred Heart Catholic School
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- 901 m
Oldway Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,524
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,496
- Shoplifting 523
- Anti social behaviour 335
- Other theft 276
- Criminal damage and arson 274
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ3 3 residents
- 15,190
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
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
OLD FARM SURGERY
67 FOXHOLE ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 3TB
ODS code L83607
422 m
MAYFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 TOTNES ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5LA
ODS code L83014
1.3 km
CORNER PLACE SURGERY
46A DARTMOUTH ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5AH
ODS code L83103
1.4 km
PEMBROKE MEDICAL GROUP
PEMBROKE HOUSE, 266-276 TORQUAY ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ3 2EZ
ODS code L83131
1.6 km
CHELSTON HALL SURGERY
OLD MILL ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6HW
ODS code L83118
3.4 km
CROFT HALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 CROFT ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ2 5UA
ODS code L83027
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Barton Drive
BCT · Paignton
- 0.1 miles
Barton Drive
BCT · Paignton
- 0.1 miles
Redwell Lane
BCT · Paignton
- 0.1 miles
Redwell Lane
BCT · Paignton
- 0.1 miles
Barton Drive
BCT · Paignton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 013D, 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
12,268 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,524 published events cover 12 months, averaging 293.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,496 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.