Sampford Peverell
Village · 632 residents
70Very 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: 40 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 70, 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
- Road noise reaches 61% of the area
- Infrastructure scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Sampford Peverell
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Sampford Peverell a good place to live?
Sampford Peverell scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (83) and affordability (70).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Sampford Peverell in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sampford Peverell
Sampford Peverell reads as detached houses, wide verges, and not much passing traffic beyond what the motorway junction sends its way. This is a village in the proper sense — a few dozen households, a church school, and a population small enough that its own crime figures come in single and double digits rather than the hundreds you'd see reading a town's stats. It attracts people who've already done the city thing: the median age here sits close to a decade above the national figure, which tells you this is a place people move to once they've decided what they want, not a launchpad for what's next.
The practical picture centres on Tiverton Parkway, which puts inter-city rail within reach without the village needing its own high street of amenities to justify itself — a trade a lot of commuters make willingly. Schooling is a one-option affair: Sampford Peverell Church of England Primary, an academy converter with around 120 pupils, is the only school in the village, so anyone with a family is making a single, specific bet rather than choosing between catchments. On the housing side, the story is detached homes bought outright — freehold ownership runs through every sale in the local sample, and the dominant property type is detached, which is the quiet signature of a village where people arrive to stay rather than to flip. That security carries a price: the median house price here is well above both the Mid Devon and national figures, a premium that buys space and quiet rather than square footage efficiency.