EX2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,437 of the district's 1,900 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 50.70858, -3.51460, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EX2

Companies House lists 5,422 companies with a registered office in EX2; 460 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for EX2

• Devon
• South West
• Exeter
• Teignbridge
• Topsham
• Ide
• Dunchideock
• Shillingford St George
• Shillingford Abbot
• East Devon
• Clapham

Roads filed under EX2

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• 3rd Avenue
• Abbeville Close
• Abbey Court
• Adam Close
• Admiral Way
• Albatross Road
• Aldens Road
• Alderson Drive
• Alexander Walk
• Alice Templer Close
• Allervale Close
• Alma Place
• Alphin Brook Road
• Alphington Road
• Alphington Street
• Anchor Row
• Anning Crescent
• Apple Farm Grange
• Apple Lane
• Ark Royal Avenue
• Artisans Way
• Arundel Close
• Ashlake Road
• Ashleigh
• Ashton Road
• Ashwood Road
• Aspen Close
• Astor Place
• Atherton Court
• Atkins Close
• Attwyll Avenue
• Avery Close
• Avocet Road
• Avondale Road
• Badger Close
• Bad Homburg Way
• Bagshot Avenue
• Bakers Hill
• Baker Street
• Balls Farm Road
• Bankhart Lane
• Bannatyne
• Bannatyne Row
• Bardon Walk
• Barle Close
• Barnardo Road
• Barnstone Court
• Barrack Lane
• Barrack Road
• Barton Lane
• Barton Road
• Batavia Drive
• Bate Close
• Bathern Road
• Baxter Close
• Beatty Avenue
• Beaufort Road
• Beaworthy Close
• Beech Copse
• Belgrave Road

Check an address in EX2

Check an address in EX2

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EX2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EX2

What does an EX2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EX2 district of the EX (Exeter) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Exeter. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,437 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest EX2

• EX12.6 km
• EX42.7 km
• EX34.6 km
• EX66.9 km
• EX57.8 km
• EX811.8 km
• EX714.1 km
• EX915.5 km
• EX1116.4 km
• TQ1417.5 km
• EX1717.7 km
• EX1018.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids