Mile End
Suburb · 159 residents
49Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 57 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Property market scores 73, 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
- Health scores 11, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 20, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Mile End
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Mile End a good place to live?
Mile End scores 49/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80) and property market (73).
It scores lowest on health (11) and food & drink (20).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Mile End in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Mile End
Semi-detached houses dominate the sales here, and the streets read that way: family-sized homes on modest plots, driveways rather than on-street parking scrums, the kind of place where a For Sale board tends to stay up for a reasonable stretch rather than vanish overnight. This is Mile End in Devon, not the East London postcode of the same name, and it carries the character of a Teignbridge suburb rather than a city fringe — quieter, more settled, built around family houses rather than flats.
The housing picture is straightforward: freehold ownership runs to the large majority of sales, semi-detached is the most common type, and at a median of £275,000 this sits close to both the regional and national semi-detached benchmarks — not a premium postcode, not a bargain corner, just fairly priced against Teignbridge itself, coming in around five per cent below the district median. Flats are the outlier worth flagging: they trade well below the national flat median, suggesting the small apartment stock here is the soft spot in an otherwise solid local market. On schools, Canada Hill Community Primary carries a Good rating, and with a median age of 34 — a decade younger than the national median — this reads as a place with children in the mix, even without an Outstanding-rated feeder school on record.
The grade pattern is where you should pay attention. Housing and safety both come out as clear strengths, well above the national average, and connectivity and affordability sit comfortably mid-table too. But safety is marked as worsening, and that's the quiet tension in an otherwise settled-looking place: the crime count itself is modest at 62 incidents over the year, yet three in five of those are violence and sexual offences, a category share that outpaces the more minor stuff — anti-social behaviour and criminal damage each sit in the single digits by comparison. It's not a place that feels unsafe on the ground, going by the overall grade, but the trend line is one to watch rather than dismiss. Environment, health and nightlife all land in the C+ band — average, unremarkable, neither a draw nor a deterrent.