Glenholt
Neighbourhood · 1,041 residents
64Good
Good · better than 7 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
- Affordability scores 76, well above the typical 60
- Environment 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
- Food & drink scores 36, below the typical 60
- Health scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Glenholt
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Is Glenholt a good place to live?
Glenholt scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (76) and environment (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (36) and health (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Glenholt in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Glenholt
Glenholt is semi-detached and terraced houses on quiet, unremarkable streets, hedges trimmed, cars washed at the weekend, the kind of place that doesn't announce itself. The median age nudges 50, well above both the regional and national norms, and you feel it in the pace: this is a settled suburb, not a starter-home churn zone.
The practical picture is a good one on paper. Glenholt sits in the ninth decile for both income and deprivation, meaning it's among the least deprived pockets of the country, and that shows up in the affordability grade as much as the streetscape. A median house price around £265,000 is actually below the national median, but it's still nearly 20% above what you'd typically pay elsewhere in Plymouth, so a For Sale board here reads as a step up locally rather than a bargain. Terraced homes dominate the sales mix, most of it freehold, which suits owner-occupiers more than landlords. Schools lean solid rather than spectacular — St Matthew's Church of England Primary and Nursery Academy carries a Good rating, and with Widewell and Oakwood primary academies also in the mix, families have options without a single standout Outstanding name to chase. Transport scores strongly, with two dozen stops feeding the area, though this is a bus-and-road suburb rather than a rail one.
Day to day, green space is modest rather than generous — a handful of small pockets rather than sprawling parkland, so this isn't an area built around long dog walks from the doorstep. Broadband compensates: full-fibre coverage above three-quarters of properties means working from home here is genuinely practical. The one grade that jars against an otherwise comfortable pattern is safety, marked worsening over time, and the crime figures explain why — violence and sexual offences account for half of all recorded incidents, and the overall rate sits well above the Plymouth-wide average. It's worth sitting with that fact rather than skating past it, because everything else here — the affordability, the connectivity, the housing stock — points to a comfortable, low-friction suburb, and the safety trend is the one thread that doesn't quite match.