Dunyeat's Hill
Suburb · 374 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 8 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
- Schools scores 76, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 73, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 29 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Dunyeat's Hill
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Is Dunyeat's Hill a good place to live?
Dunyeat's Hill scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (76) and environment (73).
It scores lowest on health (26).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Dunyeat's Hill in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Dunyeat's Hill
Detached houses set well back from the road, gravel drives, hedges cut into neat lines rather than left wild — this is the kind of street where the cars in the driveways are newer than the fences around them. Dunyeat's Hill reads as settled money rather than new money: the sort of place people move to once, and then stay.
The numbers back up that impression of comfort. This sits in the top decile nationally for both deprivation and income, and the median age of 57 tells you this isn't a place full of first-time buyers or young families chasing a school catchment — it's a place people arrive at in their fifties and sixties, often mortgage-free. Property here is overwhelmingly detached and freehold, and a For Sale board on this street is pointing at something closer to £460,000 than the £281,000 national median — pricier than Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole as a whole, which itself isn't cheap. Corfe Hills School and Broadstone Middle School, both rated Good, cover the secondary years reasonably well, though this isn't an area built around the school run so much as around a quiet retirement or a long, settled tenure.
Green space is thin on the ground in the literal sense — one named plot, just over a hectare and a half — which fits the density here: for a suburb, Dunyeat's Hill is more built-up than the regional average, with houses close enough together that garden size, not park access, is doing the work of outdoor space. The day-to-day rhythm looks like something conducted largely from home or by car — full-fibre broadband reaches most properties, which matters if working from a home office is part of the appeal. Healthcare and general liveability grade solidly in line with national norms, nothing exceptional, nothing to worry about.