Aller Park
Suburb · 172 residents
62Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 47 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 71, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 24, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Aller Park a good place to live?
Aller Park scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81) and affordability (71).
It scores lowest on health (24).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Aller Park in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Aller Park
Detached houses on generous plots, hedges trimmed with some care, and barely anyone under forty on the pavement — that's the immediate read on Aller Park. This is a suburb where the median age sits close to 57, more than a decade and a half above the national figure, and the streets carry that quiet, settled feel rather than any buzz.
Money-wise, this is comfortably among the better-off pockets of the country: both income and deprivation deciles sit at 9, meaning it's better off than nine in ten areas nationally. That doesn't translate into cheap living, though. The typical home sells for around £320,500, roughly 10% above the price across Teignbridge as a whole, and the property mix explains why — sales here are dominated by detached freehold houses, with flats a small minority. A "for sale" board on this street is far more likely to be advertising a family-sized detached house outright than a leasehold flat with a service charge attached. Schools are thin on the named ground: Abbotskerswell Primary School carries a Good rating, and Decoy Primary School, the larger of the two, has no published Ofsted grade in this data. There's no rail station listed either, so anyone commuting by train will be doing it from elsewhere, not from within the suburb itself.
The grade pattern here is where the real story sits. Safety earns an A — genuinely rare — while affordability, connectivity, and nightlife all sit a notch below at B+, and schools and health land at a plain B. That's an unusual shape: a place that scores best precisely where many suburbs struggle, and merely average on some of the things you'd expect an affluent area to ace. The crime figures back up the safety grade at a headline level — seven incidents in the past year is a small number in absolute terms — though within that violence and sexual offences still account for over a third of the recorded breakdown, a pattern common to many quiet areas where any local dispute has a habit of being recorded that way. Broadband is solid rather than exceptional, with full fibre reaching around three-quarters of properties.