John Street Exeter

79 addresses across 1 postcode (EX1), about 40 m long. USRN 14200434.

  • Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 2007 the median was £240,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Exeter St Thomas, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rougemont Gardens, is about 510 m (0.3 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: Its addresses are 31 to 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 75 of its 79 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Southernhay House Surgery, about 780 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: 1,413 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20071£240,000£240,000£240,000
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Sep 2019THE FAT PIG, 2 EX1 1BLOther£40,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Oct 2007THE FAT PIG, 2 EX1 1BLSemi-detached£240,000

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: yes, Central (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): 2023 Article 4 Direction.
  • 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 79 addresses are between 31 m and 33 m above sea level (33 m on average).

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
EX1 1BL100%100%100%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 2024–25540 m (0.3 miles)
Exeter Central 3.0 million journeys in 2024–25610 m (0.4 miles)
Exeter St David's 2.9 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King Street Exeter City Centre30 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre920 m (0.6 miles)
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing6.3 km (3.9 miles)
Car parks8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest NCP Car Park Exeter Market Street120 m
EV charging points15 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station450 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT8.6 km (5.3 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL76.3 km (47 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 Southernhay House Surgery780 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pittar Chambers Dental Practice220 m
HospitalFranklyn Community Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationExeter Volunteer Police Cadets1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Exeter High Street NatWest290 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rougemont Gardens 3.7 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 13 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.8 ha740 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 7.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Olave, a listed building (Grade II*), 80 m north. 440 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 21 of them Grade I and 51 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St OlaveListed building, Grade II*80 m north
Tuckers HallListed building, Grade II*80 m west
St Nicholas' PrioryScheduled monument110 m north-west
St Nicholas' PrioryListed building, Grade I120 m north-west
21, the MintListed building, Grade II*130 m north-west
Hall of the Vicars Choral, South StreetScheduled monument210 m north-east
Roman baths (site of), The DeaneryScheduled monument250 m north-east
St Bartholomew's Cemetery, ExeterRegistered park or garden, Grade II*260 m north-west
Northernhay and Rougemont GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II650 m (0.4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Constitutional HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Grassway PlantationWood2 km (1.2 miles) north
Grassway WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north
Duck's MarshWetland2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Fairy DellValley4.1 km (2.6 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
55 to 59750
Under 55479

75 of the street's 79 addresses are 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), 1 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 David's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11440 m (0.3 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
Exeter Mathematics School16 plus16–19610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas Primary SchoolPrimary5–11740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Montgomery Primary SchoolPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 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
Exeter and North Devon Colleges Group16 plus16–99870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111 km (0.6 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
West Exe Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools FederationNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Sidwell's Church of England Primary School & NurseryPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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
St Gabriel's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bowhill Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
West Exe SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) 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

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
The Fat Pig EX1 1BLPub/bar/nightclub20 m4 Good10 Sep 2026
Chef & Grill EX4 3HYTakeaway/sandwich shop20 m5 Very good17 Jul 2026
JinLi Exeter / Small JinLi EX4 3ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good29 Apr 2026
Little Drop Of Poison EX4 3ATPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good9 Jan 2020
Ganges Restaurant EX4 3ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
creeks cuppa EX4 3HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Jingdou Restaurant & Sushi Bar EX4 3HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
House of Hope & Mercy in the Jungle EX4 3ANRetailers - other90 m5 Very good24 Nov 2017
Chill Sweet EX4 3JQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good10 Jan 2025
Hops and Crafts EX4 3ANRetailers - other90 mExempt
Glorious Art House EX4 3JQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good17 Aug 2026
The Flat EX4 3ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Quick Stop EX4 3ANRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets90 m3 Generally satisfactory12 Aug 2026
Sacred Grounds EX4 3ANTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Bootlegger Bars Ltd EX4 3ATPub/bar/nightclub90 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Feb 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.

1,413 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences620
Anti-social behaviour317
Public order82
Other theft77
Criminal damage and arson76
Drugs67
Shoplifting37
Bicycle theft30
Burglary27
Vehicle crime22
Theft from the person20
Other crime15
Robbery12
Possession of weapons11

Most of these are attached to: On or near North Street (512); On or near Parking Area (193); On or near Rackclose Lane (177); On or near St Olave'S Close (77); On or near Nightclub (50).

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 Warrens (retailers - other, EX1 1DZ) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good 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 Custard Town (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EX4 3HL) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 20 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.

  • EX1 1BL: 79 addresses of 80 in the postcode

Nearby streets

King Street · Fiernhay Street · Smythen Street · St. Mary Steps Terrace · The Mint · Stepcote Hill · Fore Street · Rack Street · Fore Street · Grendon Buildings · Preston Street · Guinea Street

All the streets in EX1 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.