Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Furzeham Primary School is the nearest published school at 531 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ5 8BA
Furzeham with Summercombe · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon
- Postcode district
- TQ5
- Postcode sector
- TQ5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ5 8BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ5
- Postcode sector
- TQ5 8
- Latitude
- 50.401466
- Longitude
- -3.517641
- British National Grid easting
- 292,240
- British National Grid northing
- 56,835
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
- E00076727
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 017G · E01015189
- 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
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 531 m
Furzeham Primary School
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- 1.2 km
Brixham College
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- 1.3 km
Brixham Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 853
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 403
- Anti social behaviour 102
- Criminal damage and arson 95
- Other theft 57
- Public order 50
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ5 8 residents
- 4,896
Age bands in TQ5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 39.1%
457 residents
354 residents
742 residents
1,408 residents
1,905 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 87.5%
- 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
2
within 5 km
COMPASS HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRES
KING STREET, BRIXHAM, TQ5 9TF
ODS code L83055
735 m
CORNER PLACE SURGERY
46A DARTMOUTH ROAD, PAIGNTON, TQ4 5AH
ODS code L83103
5.0 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
North Furzeham Road
BCT · Brixham
- 0.1 miles
Battery Gardens
BCT · Brixham
- 0.1 miles
The Mount
BCT · Brixham
- 0.2 miles
Alma Road
BCT · Brixham
- 0.2 miles
Wolston Close
BCT · Brixham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 017G, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,488 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
853 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 403 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.