Beckery
Suburb · 387 residents
65Good
Good · better than 7 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
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Food & drink scores 87, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 48% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Beckery
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Beckery a good place to live?
Beckery scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (91) and food & drink (87).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Beckery in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Beckery
Beckery's streets are quiet in the way a place gets when barely four hundred people live there — low-rise, mixed housing, no chain shopfronts dominating the picture, and a population whose median age nudges 52, well above the national norm. This isn't a suburb full of young families jostling for school places; it's a settled, older, slower-paced pocket on the edge of a larger town, and it feels like it.
The property picture backs that up. Sales here skew semi-detached and freehold, with a fairly even spread across detached, flats and terraces too — the kind of mix that suggests a long-settled street rather than a single developer's estate. Prices are the real story: a median around £232,500 sits some way below both the Somerset and national averages, roughly 15% cheaper than the wider county. For a buyer, that's a meaningful discount; for anyone banking on future uplift, it's worth noting this is a market that's sat quietly rather than surged. Schooling is thin on the ground in the data — Tor School, a small pupil referral unit rated Good, is the only named entry, which tells you this isn't an area built around catchment competition.
Green space and eating-out options aren't detailed enough here to sketch a weekend routine with any confidence, so it's fairer to focus on what the numbers do say clearly. Connectivity is a genuine strength — full fibre reaches over 70% of the area, useful if you're working from home rather than commuting into a nearby town centre. Health and affordability grades sit comfortably above average too, and council tax bands lean toward the lower-mid range, which fits the sense of an unpretentious, affordable corner rather than an aspirational one.