Terraced streets and low-rise flats dominate here, the kind of tightly packed Victorian housing stock you find in naval port suburbs, with corner shops and takeaways doing the work of a high street rather than any single parade. It's a compact, dense little pocket of Plymouth — more people packed into a square kilometre than you'll find in most of England — and it reads as a working suburb rather than a commuter dormitory: younger side of middle-aged, renters and first-time buyers mixed in with people who've been here decades. The numbers on affordability tell you who this suburb is for. A median house price around £125,000 sits well below both the national figure and Plymouth's own average, and it's leasehold flats that dominate the market here — roughly six in ten sales — over freehold houses. A "For Sale" board on one of these streets is more likely to be a one or two-bed flat than a family semi, and the price gap to the rest of Plymouth is substantial, not marginal. Schooling is a genuine strength in the mix: Marlborough Primary Academy and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School both carry Good Ofsted ratings, and Devonport High School for Boys, also Good, gives older children a well-regarded secondary option. With 22 transport stops serving a small area, getting around locally is straightforward even without a car. Green space is thin on the ground relative to the size of the population — seven small pockets adding up to just over a hectare between them — so this isn't an area built around parkland weekends; people here tend to make more of the coast and the city's wider green spaces than anything on their own doorstep. That density does have a cost: safety is the one grade that sits noticeably below the rest of an otherwise solid picture, and the crime rate here runs far higher than Plymouth's borough-wide average, with violence and sexual offences accounting for well over a third of all recorded incidents, followed by shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. It's worth sitting with that figure rather than skating past it — everything else about Morice Town, from broadband coverage to school quality to transport links, reads as comfortably average-to-good, which makes the safety grade the one genuine outlier in the file. This suits someone who wants affordable inner-Plymouth living, doesn't need much outdoor space, and is realistic about the trade-off between low prices and a higher local crime rate. It's less suited to anyone whose main priority is a quiet, low-crime street — the underlying character here is urban and a little rough around the edges, not sedate.