PL22 postcode district: Lostwithiel and around, Cornwall
PL22 is a postcode district in England, with 210 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Lostwithiel. Its council is Cornwall.
- Postcodes in use
- 210
- Sectors
- 1
- Council
- Cornwall
- Places
- Lostwithiel
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Every postcode in PL22, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 42
- At medium risk at worst: 3
- At low risk at worst: 6
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 159
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 210 postcodes in PL22 that ONS places, 42 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 159 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 210 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.4036, longitude -4.6521. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The postcodes at high risk
42 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
What broadband can you get in PL22?
Ofcom reports on 209 of the 210 postcodes in PL22. At 27 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 10 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is PL22 at risk of flooding?
51 of the 210 postcodes in PL22 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 310 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What do homes sell for in PL22?
Homes in PL22 sold for a typical £270,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 55 sales, down 12.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- 12 months to August 2025
- £310,000
- 12 months to August 2026
- £270,000
▼ down 12.9% on the 12 months before
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Postcodes in PL22
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in PL22
Towns and villages with postcodes in PL22, and how many each has here.
Who covers PL22
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Cornwall210
Constituencies
- South East Cornwall210
Police force areas
- Devon & Cornwall210
Next to PL22
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after PL22 in the PL area.
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