Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Furzeham Primary School is the nearest published school at 338 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ5 9TL
St Peter's with St Mary's · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon
- Postcode district
- TQ5
- Postcode sector
- TQ5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ5 9TL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ5
- Postcode sector
- TQ5 9
- Latitude
- 50.395817
- Longitude
- -3.511467
- British National Grid easting
- 292,666
- British National Grid northing
- 56,198
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- St Peter's with St Mary's · E05012266
- Parish or community
- E04001084
- Westminster constituency
- South Devon · E14001484
- Output area
- E00076738
- 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
- 338 m
Furzeham Primary School
Academy converter
- 397 m
Brixham College
Academy converter
- 505 m
Brixham Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,015
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 485
- Anti social behaviour 118
- Criminal damage and arson 111
- Other theft 65
- Public order 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ5 9 residents
- 8,940
Age bands in TQ5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 30%
1,226 residents
722 residents
1,509 residents
2,645 residents
2,616 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+
- 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
COMPASS HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRES
KING STREET, BRIXHAM, TQ5 9TF
ODS code L83055
52 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
King Street
BCT · Brixham
- 0.1 miles
Strand Statue
BCT · Brixham
- 0.1 miles
Brixham Ferry Landing
FBT · Brixham
- 0.1 miles
King Street Surgery
BCT · Brixham
- 0.1 miles
King Street Surgery
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
1,015 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 485 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.