Alphington Street Exeter

1 address across 1 postcode (EX4), about 170 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 14200265.

  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Exeter St Thomas, about 240 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bull Meadow, is about 700 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 9 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Thomas Medical Group, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 13% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 671 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (68% of about 1,140 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 September 2026 to 6 October 2026: WALES AND WEST UTILITIES LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 9 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 10 August 2026 to 13 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, lane closure, on the carriageway (standard works)
  • 3 August 2026 to 6 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, lane closure, on the carriageway (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 268 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 268 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 9 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
EX4 3AY100%0%0%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsExeter St Thomas 329,000 journeys in 2024–25240 m
Exeter Central 3.0 million journeys in 2024–25910 m (0.6 miles)
Exeter St David's 2.9 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Exe Bridges Exeter City Centre110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Ferry terminalTopsham Lock Ferry Landing Exminster6.2 km (3.8 miles)
Car parks6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cathedral & Quay Car Park340 m
EV charging points15 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station190 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL76.6 km (48 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Thomas Medical Group770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots200 m
NHS dentists16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Thomas Dental Practice450 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalFranklyn Community Hospital1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationExeter Volunteer Police Cadets1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Cowick Street, Exeter Cashzone270 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bull Meadow 1.3 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²260 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 13 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.8 ha720 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church, and medieval tenement remains, lying between the River Exe and Frog Street, a scheduled monument, 60 m north. 397 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 21 of them Grade I and 48 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church, and medieval tenement remains, lying between the River Exe and Frog StreetScheduled monument60 m north
Old Tudor House Tiddy HouseListed building, Grade II*180 m north
Church of St Mary StepsListed building, Grade I190 m north-east
5 and 7, West StreetListed building, Grade II*190 m north-east
Tuckers HallListed building, Grade II*260 m north
St Nicholas' PrioryScheduled monument380 m north
St Bartholomew's Cemetery, ExeterRegistered park or garden, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) north
Hall of the Vicars Choral, South StreetScheduled monument510 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II720 m (0.4 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Constitutional HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Duck's MarshWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Eastdown PlantationWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Grassway PlantationWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Fairy DellValley4.4 km (2.7 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
75 dB or more10
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Exeter: see them on the Exeter page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Thomas Primary SchoolPrimary5–11420 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Montgomery Primary SchoolPrimary2–11580 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St David's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11650 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
West Exe Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools FederationNursery2–5800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Exeter Mathematics School16 plus16–19920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Bowhill Primary SchoolPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Gabriel's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Exeter and North Devon Colleges Group16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
West Exe SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Sidwell's Church of England Primary School & NurseryPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Holiday Inn Express EX4 3FLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m5 Very good28 Apr 2025
Goto Japanese EX4 3AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Wool on the Exe EX4 1DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good26 Sep 2019
Energy Organic EX4 1ADRetailers - other170 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
GWRSA Exeter West Railway Club EX4 1AAPub/bar/nightclub180 m2 Improvement necessary12 Feb 2026
Exebridge Cafe EX4 1AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Sep 2025
Puffins in the City EX1 1BBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good4 Jul 2025
Exeter Foodbank EX4 1AARetailers - other200 m5 Very good27 Oct 2026
The Press House EX4 3ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good4 Mar 2025
Bel's Kitchen EX1 1BDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good17 Jan 2025
Fireaway EX4 3JQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Browns Exeter EX2 8BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good10 Dec 2024
Riverside Community Coffee Shop EX4 1DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good25 Nov 2024
Zer0 Ltd EX4 3JQRetailers - other210 m5 Very good18 Jun 2019
Alma EX4 3AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good17 Nov 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

671 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting183
Violence and sexual offences178
Anti-social behaviour117
Public order39
Other theft30
Drugs29
Criminal damage and arson24
Bicycle theft23
Burglary17
Vehicle crime10
Possession of weapons6
Other crime6
Robbery6
Theft from the person3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rackclose Lane (177); On or near Exeter St Thomas (138); On or near Supermarket (86); On or near Alphington Street (75); On or near Tudor Court (44).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 532 residents in 193 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age2540
Children under 154%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)13%61%
Owned outright6%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented77%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van13%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle38%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)87%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Boatyard Arches Bakery (retailers - other, EX4 1AJ) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Slazenger Padel (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EX2 8BY) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 28 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Exeter Foodbank (retailers - other, EX4 1AA) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Namaste Exeter (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EX1 1BS) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 26 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • EX4 3AY: 1 address of 285 in the postcode

Nearby streets

A377 · Commercial Road · Alphington Street · Shooting Marsh Stile · Gervase Avenue · New Bridge Street · Commercial Road · Tudor Court · Lower Rackclose Lane · Shooting Marsh Stile · Swan Yard · Ewings Square

All the streets in EX4 and across Exeter.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.