Duryard
Suburb · 2,816 residents
46Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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: 30 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 17% 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
- Health scores 9, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Duryard
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Duryard a good place to live?
Duryard scores 46/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81).
It scores lowest on health (9) and schools (28).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Duryard in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Duryard
Duryard is student housing dressed as a residential suburb — big detached houses with wheelie bins that never quite fit back in, bikes chained three-deep outside converted porches, and a population that skews so young you'd think the whole place had been built yesterday. That's not far off: with a median age of 19.5, this is University of Exeter territory through and through, and the streetscape follows suit — solid Victorian and Edwardian houses that were built for families now largely broken into student lets and short-stay rentals.
That youth skew explains almost everything else here. There's one school in the immediate area, Thomas Hall School, rated Requires Improvement with a below-average Progress 8 score, which tells you this isn't a place families are moving to for the primary catchment — it's a place young adults pass through. Transport is solid rather than flashy: 22 stops locally give you options around the city, though this isn't a rail-commuter's postcode in the way some Exeter suburbs are. The housing stock itself is telling — detached homes dominate sales, everything's freehold, and at a median of £450,000 (against Exeter's £295,000) you're paying a 36% premium over the surrounding district. That premium buys you space and period character, not proximity to good schools.
Green space is modest but present — just under 8 hectares across three sites, enough for a walk between lectures rather than a weekend hike. Eating out follows the same logic: this is a suburb built around a campus population, so expect the casual, functional end of the food scene rather than destination dining. What stands out more is the safety picture, and it's genuinely reassuring — this is one of the least deprived areas in the country by income and deprivation measures, and the area earns a strong safety grade despite crime being logged as "worsening" over recent readings. Look closer at the numbers and violence and sexual offences account for roughly half of all recorded crime, which is a pattern common to areas with dense, young, nightlife-adjacent populations rather than a sign of general lawlessness — the other categories (burglary, vehicle crime) sit low.