Buckfastleigh

Buckfastleigh is covered by postcode district TQ11. It is mostly in the Teignbridge council area: 90 of its 91 postcodes. The other is in South Hams.

Typical price £247,500 Homes sold in Buckfastleigh, last 12 months. ▲ 3.7% on the year before Gigabit broadband 49 of 91 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 31 of 91 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 178 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Buckfastleigh, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Buckfastleigh, by flood risk Of the 91 postcodes in Buckfastleigh that ONS places, 13 have a home or business at high risk, 6 are at medium risk at worst, 12 are at low risk at worst and 60 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 9 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Buckfastleigh. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A38A384 TQ11 0AB: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AD: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AE: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AF: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AG: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AJ: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AL: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AN: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AP: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AQ: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AR: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AS: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AT: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AU: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AW: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AX: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AY: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AZ: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BE: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BG: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BH: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BJ: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BL: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BN: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BP: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BQ: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BW: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0BY: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DD: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DE: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DF: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DG: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DH: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DJ: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DL: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DN: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DP: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DR: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DS: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DW: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DX: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0DY: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0EW: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0EZ: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0FB: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0FD: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0FF: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0FH: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0GA: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0JL: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0LR: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0NG: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0NH: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0NJ: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0NL: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0NP: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0NS: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0NY: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0PG: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0RB: not on the flood risk listTQ11 0AA: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0BD: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0DA: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0DB: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0ET: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0JR: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0LL: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0LN: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0NN: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0NR: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0PA: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0QA: low flood risk at worstTQ11 0AH: medium flood risk at worstTQ11 0BB: medium flood risk at worstTQ11 0BT: medium flood risk at worstTQ11 0EX: medium flood risk at worstTQ11 0PF: medium flood risk at worstTQ11 0PR: medium flood risk at worstTQ11 0BA: high flood riskTQ11 0BS: high flood riskTQ11 0BU: high flood riskTQ11 0BX: high flood riskTQ11 0BZ: high flood riskTQ11 0DQ: high flood riskTQ11 0DZ: high flood riskTQ11 0EY: high flood riskTQ11 0FE: high flood riskTQ11 0FG: high flood riskTQ11 0LG: high flood riskTQ11 0LQ: high flood risk Buckfastleigh 9 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to TQ11 0BS, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk9 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Buckfastleigh, by flood risk Of the 91 postcodes in Buckfastleigh that ONS places, 13 have a home or business at high risk, 6 are at medium risk at worst, 12 are at low risk at worst and 60 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 9 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Buckfastleigh. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A38A384 Buckfastleigh
  • A home or business at high risk: 13
  • At medium risk at worst: 6
  • At low risk at worst: 12
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 60
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 91 postcodes in Buckfastleigh that ONS places, 13 have a home or business at high risk, 6 are at medium risk at worst, 12 are at low risk at worst and 60 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 150 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 50.4812, longitude -3.7802. 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

13 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.

TQ11 0BS25 at high riskTQ11 0BU23 at high riskTQ11 0NF16 at high riskTQ11 0EY10 at high riskTQ11 0LG7 at high riskTQ11 0LQ6 at high riskTQ11 0FE5 at high riskTQ11 0BA4 at high riskTQ11 0FG4 at high riskTQ11 0BZ2 at high riskTQ11 0DQ2 at high riskTQ11 0BX1 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 9 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. TQ11 0BS, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Buckfastleigh?

Homes sold for a typical £247,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 3.7% on the 12 months before. At 49 of the 91 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 178 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 31 of its 91 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Totnes, 8.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Buckfastleigh?

Homes in Buckfastleigh sold for a typical £247,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 46 sales, up 3.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£247,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£238,725 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 3.7% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £422,500 15 sales
  • Semi-detached £250,000 6 sales
  • Terraced £201,000 23 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole TQ11 district, Buckfastleigh's main postcode district: a typical £252,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Buckfastleigh: 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

Are new homes being built in Buckfastleigh?

None of the 91 postcodes now in use in Buckfastleigh came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 36 homes sold in Buckfastleigh were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TQ11 district, 0%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn BuckfastleighAcross the TQ11 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 46 (0%) 0 of 54 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 36 (0%) 0 of 50 (0%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Buckfastleigh?

Ofcom reports on 91 of the 91 postcodes in Buckfastleigh. At 49 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit49 of 91
Postcodes where every home can get superfast84 of 91

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Buckfastleigh at risk of flooding?

31 of the 91 postcodes in Buckfastleigh 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 178 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 31 of 91 postcodes High: 106Medium: 72Low: 240Very low: 8

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

Which schools are in Buckfastleigh?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Buckfastleigh. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Buckfastleigh?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Buckfastleigh is Totnes Rail Station, 8.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Totnes Rail Station Railway station 8.2 kmDrive
  • Ivybridge Rail Station Railway station 13.1 kmDrive
  • Newton Abbot Rail Station Railway station 13.9 kmDrive
  • Buckfastleigh (South Devon Railway) Underground, metro or tram 800 mWalk

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Buckfastleigh?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Buckfastleigh. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Buckfastleigh safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 217 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Buckfastleigh over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 23 September 2025
  2. 21 October 2025
  3. 19 November 2025
  4. 10 December 2025
  5. 13 January 2026
  6. 24 February 2026
  7. 17 March 2026
  8. 13 April 2026
  9. 23 May 2026
  10. 19 June 2026
  11. 19 July 2026
  12. 16 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences114 reports
Criminal damage and arson20 reports
Public order19 reports
Anti-social behaviour15 reports
Other theft14 reports
Drugs10 reports
Vehicle crime7 reports
Other crime6 reports

Also: burglary 5, possession of weapons 5, shoplifting 2.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Buckfastleigh?

Councils
Teignbridge (90) and South Hams (1)
County council
Devon
Parliamentary constituencies
Central Devon (90) and South Devon (1)
Police force area
Devon & Cornwall
Region
South West
Country
England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Moving to Buckfastleigh

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Buckfastleigh is in Teignbridge; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.

Who to tell when moving house: the full list Moving house checklist

Buckfastleigh postcodes

91 postcodes in use in Buckfastleigh, by district:

TQ11 postcode district,91 postcodes

That district is in the TQ postcode area.

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Places near Buckfastleigh

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Buckfastleigh's £247,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Ashburton4.5 km, £301,000South Brent7.2 km, £285,000Totnes8.6 km, £375,000Ipplepen10.0 km, £321,960Marldon13.3 km, £347,500Newton Abbot13.3 km, £240,000Heathfield, Teignbridge13.5 km, £222,500Stoke Gabriel13.9 km, £452,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Buckfastleigh

What is it like to live in Buckfastleigh?
Homes sold for a typical £247,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 3.7% on the 12 months before. At 49 of the 91 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 178 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 31 of its 91 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Totnes, 8.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Buckfastleigh?
Buckfastleigh is covered by postcode district TQ11, across 91 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Buckfastleigh?
Homes in Buckfastleigh sold for a typical £247,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 46 sales, up 3.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Buckfastleigh?
In Buckfastleigh, primary schools at its postcodes include Buckfastleigh Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is South Devon Steiner School, 4.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Buckfastleigh have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Buckfastleigh is Totnes, 8.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Buckfastleigh?
Ofcom reports on 91 of the 91 postcodes in Buckfastleigh. At 49 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Buckfastleigh at risk of flooding?
31 of the 91 postcodes in Buckfastleigh 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 178 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Buckfastleigh?
None of the 91 postcodes now in use in Buckfastleigh came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 36 homes sold in Buckfastleigh were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TQ11 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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