Ermington
Village · 342 residents
67Good
Good · better than 7 in 10 villages
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: 44 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Infrastructure scores 28, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Ermington a good place to live?
Ermington scores 67/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (87) and transport (71).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (28).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ermington in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ermington
Ermington reads as a scatter of stone cottages and terraces around a village centre, the kind of place where a strange face gets a second glance not from suspicion but because there simply aren't many faces to begin with. This is South Hams countryside proper, and the streetscape says so: freehold terraces and semis, no new-build estates, nothing built to a housebuilder's template.
The practical picture here is a genuine trade-off. There's no rail station in the data for Ermington itself, and with only two transport stops recorded, this isn't a place you commute from lightly — you'd be driving to a station elsewhere in South Hams rather than walking to one. Schools, though, punch reasonably: Ermington Primary School and Holbeton Primary School are both rated Good, small village schools with fewer than ninety pupils apiece, the kind where a teacher knows every child's name. The median age of 49.5 — a decade above the national figure — tells you who's actually living here: settled couples and retirees rather than young families chasing a commute, which fits a village with no rail link at its door.
Property here is modest by the standards of the wider district — a median price a touch below South Hams as a whole — and what sells is mostly terraced freehold stock, the sort of For Sale board that reads "cottage" rather than "development." Day-to-day life runs on a short loop: four small green spaces (just under two and a half hectares between them) for a dog walk or a bit of air, and whatever the village itself can support given a population small enough that the pub and the shop probably know your order. There isn't a restaurant scene to speak of in what's recorded here, and that's the honest shape of a small village rather than a market town. Broadband is a genuine soft spot — just over half of properties have full fibre, and the connectivity grade sits well below everything else on the scorecard, a D+ against a run of Bs and As elsewhere. If you work from home and need to be online reliably, that's worth checking on your actual street before anything else.