Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Furzeham Primary School is the nearest published school at 262 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ5 5BJ
Furzeham with Summercombe · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon
- Postcode district
- TQ5
- Postcode sector
- TQ5 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ5 5BJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2018
- Terminated
- 1 February 2019
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ5
- Postcode sector
- TQ5 5
- Latitude
- 50.394516
- Longitude
- -3.516786
- British National Grid easting
- 292,285
- British National Grid northing
- 56,061
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- Furzeham with Summercombe · E05012260
- Parish or community
- E04001084
- Westminster constituency
- South Devon · E14001484
- Output area
- E00076739
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 017D · E01015186
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 017 · E02003170
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 TQ5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 262 m
Furzeham Primary School
Academy converter
- 631 m
Brixham Church of England Primary School
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- 631 m
Brixham College
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,056
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 503
- Anti social behaviour 124
- Criminal damage and arson 118
- Other theft 69
- Public order 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
COMPASS HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRES
KING STREET, BRIXHAM, TQ5 9TF
ODS code L83055
358 m
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
- 0.0 miles
Museum
BCT · Brixham
- 0.0 miles
Museum
BCT · Brixham
- 0.1 miles
Town Square
BCT · Brixham
- 0.1 miles
Town Square
BCT · Brixham
- 0.1 miles
Town Square
BCT · Brixham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 017D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,472 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
1,056 published events cover 12 months, averaging 88 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 503 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.