Cullompton
Town · 8,785 residents
74Very good
Very good · better than 8 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- 57% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 78 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 29% 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
- Road noise reaches 53% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Cullompton a good place to live?
Cullompton scores 74/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (80) and environment (76).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cullompton in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cullompton
Cullompton reads as a working Devon town rather than a commuter dormitory: terraced rows and semis running off a compact centre, the kind of place where the housing stock still looks lived-in rather than styled for sale. It attracts people who want a market-town pace without paying Exeter prices, and the mix of ages on the street — a median in the low forties — suggests a settled population rather than a young professional churn.
There's no rail station in the picture here, so this is a driving town, or one built around the 73 local transport stops rather than a platform. Schools carry the weight instead: St Andrew's Primary, Willowbank Primary and Cullompton Community College are all rated Good, which gives you a reliable, if not exceptional, run from reception to GCSE without needing to think about catchment gymnastics. Housing matches that steady, unflashy picture — terraced freeholds dominate the sales data, and with a median price around £230,000 against Mid Devon's £280,000, you're buying roughly 12% below what the surrounding district asks. Flats undercut the national median by a wide margin too, so a For Sale board here is more likely advertising a two-up-two-down for a young family or downsizer than a first-time buyer flat chain.
Green space is genuinely well provided for — 49 sites across the town add up to more hectares per head than both the regional and national average, so dog walks and Saturday-morning kickabouts aren't hard to find even if no single park dominates the postcard. Health and environment both score strongly against the national picture, which tracks with the sense of a town that hasn't been paved over. The one figure that jars against that calm backdrop is crime: violence and sexual offences make up over 40% of recorded incidents, a heavier share than you'd expect from a town this size, even though burglary and vehicle crime stay low. It's the kind of number worth sitting with rather than dismissing — safety here scores well overall nationally, so this looks like a concentrated category rather than a town-wide problem, but it's the detail that stops the picture being uniformly gentle.