Noss Mayo
Village · 227 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 8 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: 18 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 74, well above the typical 60
- Health scores 73, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Noss Mayo a good place to live?
Noss Mayo scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (89) and transport (74).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Noss Mayo in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Noss Mayo
Detached stone and slate-hung houses along the creek, boats pulled up on the mud at low tide, and barely another soul about — this is a village in the proper sense of the word, small enough that you'd know a stranger's car by the second week.
The numbers on population confirm what you'd sense walking round: this is a tiny, quiet pocket, with a median age pushing sixty, which tells you plainly who's here — people well past the school run, many likely retired or working from home rather than commuting out daily. There's no rail station listed for Noss Mayo itself, and the practical bus and stop provision is modest, so a car is less a lifestyle choice than a necessity here. For schooling, Newton Ferrers Church of England Primary sits close by and carries a Good Ofsted rating — solid rather than exceptional, and in a village this size, likely the school for any family that does settle here. Housing follows the same story: it's overwhelmingly detached, overwhelmingly freehold, and the sale prices — a median of £750,000 against a national detached figure closer to half that — put this firmly at the upper end of the market, pricier than South Hams as a whole, which is itself no bargain corner of Devon.
Green space is limited on paper, just a handful of small plots rather than sprawling parkland, but the real outdoor life here is the water — the creek, the coast path, the pull of Newton Ferrers just across the inlet. There's no meaningful restaurant count or food scene logged for the village itself, which fits the pattern: this is not a place for spontaneous nights out, it's a place you retreat to, provision yourself carefully, and drive out from when you want more. Crime is negligible in absolute terms, and the safety grade sits at the top of the scale — the one violent offence recorded still dominates the small crime breakdown by share, which is simply what happens when total numbers are this low, not a sign of a troubled place. Connectivity is the one grade that dips against the pattern, a reminder that broadband and mobile signal in a folded, rural creek-side spot can lag behind the rest of the picture.