Prioryville
Suburb · 151 residents
57Good
Good · better than 4 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
- Food & drink scores 87, well above the typical 60
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 11% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Prioryville a good place to live?
Prioryville scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (87) and health (86).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Prioryville in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Prioryville
Terraced rows dominate the streets here, tightly packed, almost all of them freehold — the kind of housing stock built for dockworkers and their families a century ago and still doing much the same job. Prioryville sits inside Milford Haven, and it feels like a working town rather than a commuter dormitory: small, dense, and unmistakably lived-in rather than styled for visitors.
Housing is where the numbers genuinely surprise you. A median sale price around £148,750 is roughly a third below what you'd pay elsewhere in Pembrokeshire, and the terraced houses that make up most sales here trade a little under the Welsh average too. Freehold is essentially universal, so what you're buying is the whole house and the ground beneath it, no service charges or leasehold small print to puzzle over. Milford Haven Rail Station gives you a line out without needing a car, though this isn't a place that was built around commuting — the median age of just under 41 and the tight, walkable street pattern point more to people who work locally or have put down roots here over years. St Francis Catholic School serves the primary-age crowd, a small voluntary-aided school with 141 pupils, though Wales's Estyn system means you won't find an Ofsted-style grade attached to it — you'd want to visit and ask around rather than rely on a label.
The area sits in the second-lowest decile for deprivation in Wales and the very lowest for income, and that context matters when you read the crime figures: violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour together account for well over half of recorded incidents, and the overall rate sits far above what you'd see in the wider county. That's the one grade that jumps out of an otherwise unremarkable pattern — health, housing, and transport all read as solid, unremarkable, even good, but safety is the sore thumb. Green space and restaurant counts aren't part of the picture here, which itself tells you this is a place for quiet, self-contained living rather than a destination for a day out — you'd be walking to a neighbour's, not to a strip of cafes.