Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Truro School is the nearest published school at 660 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TR2 5WG
Truro Boscawen & Redannick · Cornwall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth
- Postcode district
- TR2
- Postcode sector
- TR2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TR2 5WG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 February 2006
- Postcode area
- TR
- Postcode district
- TR2
- Postcode sector
- TR2 5
- Latitude
- 50.255270
- Longitude
- -5.046154
- British National Grid easting
- 182,961
- British National Grid northing
- 43,918
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cornwall · E06000052
- Electoral ward
- Truro Boscawen & Redannick · E05013354
- Parish or community
- E04013097
- Westminster constituency
- Truro and Falmouth · E14001554
- Output area
- E00182757
- Lower layer super output area
- Cornwall 044A · E01018807
- Middle layer super output area
- Cornwall 044 · E02003910
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 TR2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 660 m
Truro School
Other independent school
- 759 m
Truro High School
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
Bosvigo School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,989
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 901
- Anti social behaviour 258
- Shoplifting 195
- Criminal damage and arson 181
- Public order 150
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TR2 5 residents
- 4,281
Age bands in TR2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.3%
453 residents
361 residents
683 residents
1,192 residents
1,465 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
LANDER MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRURO HEALTH PARK, INFIRMARY HILL, TRURO, TR1 2JA
ODS code L82001
870 m
THREE SPIRES MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRURO HEALTH PARK, INFIRMARY HILL, TRURO, TR1 2JA
ODS code L82028
870 m
CARNON DOWNS SURGERY
BISSOE ROAD, CARNON DOWNS, TRURO, TR3 6JD
ODS code L82061
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
British Legion Flats
BCT · Malpas Road Estate
- 0.2 miles
Roundabout
BCT · Malpas Road Estate
- 0.2 miles
British Legion Flats
BCT · Malpas Road Estate
- 0.2 miles
Roundabout
BCT · Malpas Road Estate
- 0.2 miles
Bottom Trevelva Road
BCT · Malpas Road Estate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cornwall 044A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,082 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,989 published events cover 12 months, averaging 165.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 901 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.