Dartmouth
Town · 5,006 residents
79Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- 42 places to eat and drink
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 68 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Dartmouth
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Dartmouth a good place to live?
Dartmouth scores 79/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (87) and health (86).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Dartmouth in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Dartmouth
Steep streets, whitewashed frontages, boats in the harbour rather than cars on driveways in the old centre — Dartmouth reads as a place built for looking at water, not commuting past it. You notice the age of the crowd before anything else: a median age approaching 55 tells you this is a town of people who have already made their career decisions, not one filling up with young families chasing school catchments.
There's no railway station here, and that absence shapes everything else about who ends up living in Dartmouth — this is a place you choose because you want to be in Dartmouth, not because it gets you somewhere else easily. Sixty-four bus stops keep the town moving locally, and connectivity scores well for a village of this size, but if your working life depends on a daily commute to a city, this isn't the base for it. Schooling is thin rather than absent: Dartmouth Academy takes pupils all the way through, rated Good, though its progress8 score sits below zero, meaning pupils on average make less academic progress here than the national picture would predict — worth sitting with if you have secondary-age children rather than toddlers. St John the Baptist Catholic Primary is smaller and unrated in this data. On housing, the terraced Victorian and Georgian stock that dominates the sample sells freehold more often than not, and at a median around £275,000 to £339,000 it undercuts both the South Hams average and the national one — a rare pocket where the parent district is pricier than the village itself, by roughly 4%.