Holsworthy

Holsworthy is covered by postcode district EX22. It is in the Torridge council area, Devon.

Typical price £225,000 Homes sold in Holsworthy, last 12 months. ▼ 15.1% on the year before Gigabit broadband 84 of 125 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 4 of 133 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 6 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Holsworthy, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Holsworthy, by flood risk Of the 133 postcodes in Holsworthy that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 129 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 2 postcodes lie beyond the edge and are listed under the map. Places named: Holsworthy. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A388A3072 EX22 6AA: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AB: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AD: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AE: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AF: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AG: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AH: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AJ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AL: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AN: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AP: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AQ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AR: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AS: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AT: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AU: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AX: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AY: not on the flood risk listEX22 6AZ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BB: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BD: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BE: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BG: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BH: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BJ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BN: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BP: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BQ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BR: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BS: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BT: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BU: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BW: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BX: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BY: not on the flood risk listEX22 6BZ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DA: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DB: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DD: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DE: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DG: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DH: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DJ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DL: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DQ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DR: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DT: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DY: not on the flood risk listEX22 6DZ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EA: not on the flood risk listEX22 6ED: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EF: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EG: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EH: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EJ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EL: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EN: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EP: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EQ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6ER: not on the flood risk listEX22 6ES: not on the flood risk listEX22 6ET: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EU: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EW: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EX: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EY: not on the flood risk listEX22 6EZ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FA: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FB: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FD: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FE: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FG: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FH: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FJ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FL: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FN: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FP: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FQ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FR: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FU: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FW: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FX: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FZ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6GA: not on the flood risk listEX22 6GH: not on the flood risk listEX22 6GY: not on the flood risk listEX22 6GZ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HA: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HB: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HD: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HE: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HF: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HG: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HH: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HJ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HL: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HN: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HP: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HQ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HR: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HS: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HT: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HU: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HW: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HX: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HY: not on the flood risk listEX22 6HZ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6JA: not on the flood risk listEX22 6JB: not on the flood risk listEX22 6JD: not on the flood risk listEX22 6JG: not on the flood risk listEX22 6JH: not on the flood risk listEX22 6JQ: not on the flood risk listEX22 6LR: not on the flood risk listEX22 6LS: not on the flood risk listEX22 6LT: not on the flood risk listEX22 6LU: not on the flood risk listEX22 6LY: not on the flood risk listEX22 6YR: not on the flood risk listEX22 6FS: low flood risk at worstEX22 6BL: medium flood risk at worstEX22 6JT: high flood riskEX22 6LX: high flood risk Holsworthy Map of every postcode in Holsworthy, by flood risk Of the 133 postcodes in Holsworthy that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 129 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 2 postcodes lie beyond the edge and are listed under the map. Places named: Holsworthy. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Holsworthy
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 129

Of the 133 postcodes in Holsworthy that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 129 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. 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 50.8123, longitude -4.3539. 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

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

EX22 6LX2 at high riskEX22 6JT1 at high risk

2 further out, not drawn

These postcodes lie well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without them to show the rest closer; they are in every count.

EX22 7FTEX22 7HH

What is it like to live in Holsworthy?

Homes sold for a typical £225,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 15.1% on the 12 months before. At 84 of the 125 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 6 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4 of its 133 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes.

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 and NHS England, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Holsworthy?

Homes in Holsworthy sold for a typical £225,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 39 sales, down 15.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£225,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£265,000
12 months to August 2026
£225,000

▼ down 15.1% on the 12 months before

Detached£365,000 10 sales
Semi-detached£225,000 7 sales
Terraced£205,000 19 sales
Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

Across the whole EX22 district, Holsworthy's main postcode district: a typical £285,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Holsworthy: 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 Holsworthy?

9 of the 133 postcodes now in use in Holsworthy came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 58 homes sold in Holsworthy were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the EX22 district, 17%.

The newest postcodes

EX22 9BJsince March 2026EX22 7FTsince February 2026EX22 6FZsince April 2025EX22 9BGsince November 2023EX22 6FXsince December 2022EX22 9BDsince November 2022

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn HolsworthyAcross the EX22 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 39 (0%) 1 of 118 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 1 of 58 (2%) 27 of 156 (17%)

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 Holsworthy?

Ofcom reports on 125 of the 133 postcodes in Holsworthy. At 84 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit84 of 125
Postcodes where every home can get superfast119 of 125
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 125

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 Holsworthy at risk of flooding?

4 of the 133 postcodes in Holsworthy 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 6 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 4 of 133 postcodes High: 3Medium: 3Low: 3

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 Holsworthy?

The open schools at the postcodes in Holsworthy. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. 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

Which GP surgeries are in Holsworthy?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Holsworthy. 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 Holsworthy safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 228 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Holsworthy 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. 16 September 2025
  2. 18 October 2025
  3. 21 November 2025
  4. 14 December 2025
  5. 24 January 2026
  6. 7 February 2026
  7. 18 March 2026
  8. 23 April 2026
  9. 13 May 2026
  10. 34 June 2026
  11. 23 July 2026
  12. 17 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences125 reports
Shoplifting25 reports
Criminal damage and arson16 reports
Anti-social behaviour14 reports
Other theft14 reports
Public order13 reports
Other crime8 reports
Burglary5 reports

Also: vehicle crime 3, possession of weapons 3, drugs 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 Holsworthy?

District, borough or city council
Torridge
County council
Devon
Parliamentary constituency
Torridge and Tavistock
Police force area
Devon & Cornwall
Region
South West
Country
England
MP
Sir Geoffrey Cox (Conservative)

All 133 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

Moving to Holsworthy

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Holsworthy postcodes

133 postcodes in use in Holsworthy, by district:

EX22 postcode district,133 postcodes

That district is in the EX postcode area.

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Places near Holsworthy

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Holsworthy's £225,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Stratton11.6 km, £292,500Bude13.2 km, £355,000Lifton19.5 km, £305,000Launceston19.6 km, £207,500Great Torrington21.6 km, £223,500Bideford25.0 km, £227,750Okehampton26.4 km, £228,000Westward Ho!26.6 km, £290,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Holsworthy

What is it like to live in Holsworthy?
Homes sold for a typical £225,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 15.1% on the 12 months before. At 84 of the 125 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 6 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4 of its 133 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. 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 and NHS England, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Holsworthy?
Holsworthy is covered by postcode district EX22, across 133 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Holsworthy in?
Holsworthy is in the Torridge council area, and Devon is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Holsworthy?
Holsworthy is in the Torridge and Tavistock parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Sir Geoffrey Cox (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Holsworthy?
Homes in Holsworthy sold for a typical £225,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 39 sales, down 15.1% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Holsworthy?
In Holsworthy, primary schools at its postcodes include Holsworthy Church of England Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Holsworthy Community College. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Holsworthy?
Ofcom reports on 125 of the 133 postcodes in Holsworthy. At 84 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Holsworthy at risk of flooding?
4 of the 133 postcodes in Holsworthy 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 6 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 Holsworthy?
9 of the 133 postcodes now in use in Holsworthy came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 58 homes sold in Holsworthy were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the EX22 district, 17%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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