St. Andrews Well
Suburb · 28 residents
60Good
Good · better than 5 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: 36 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 23, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around St. Andrews Well
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is St. Andrews Well a good place to live?
St. Andrews Well scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (83).
It scores lowest on health (23) and food & drink (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St. Andrews Well in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St. Andrews Well
Detached houses on generous plots, hedgerows rather than pavements in places, and a population small enough that you'd notice a new face at the shop — St. Andrews Well reads as a settled, older-skewing corner of Dorset rather than a commuter cut-through. The median age sits well into the fifties, and the streets have that unhurried, retired-professional feel rather than a young-family scramble.
There's no rail station in the picture here, so this is a driving life, and the school options reinforce a mixed picture rather than a slam-dunk: Bridport Primary School carries a Good rating, while St Catherine's Roman Catholic School has been told it requires improvement, and the local secondary, The Sir John Colfox Academy, shows perfectly average pupil progress. On the ground, a For Sale board is overwhelmingly likely to say "detached, freehold" — nineteen of the forty-one recent sales were detached houses, and freeholds outnumber leaseholds by nineteen to one, which tells you this is a place people buy into rather than pass through, and new-build supply is essentially nonexistent.
Money-wise, St. Andrews Well sits just above the national income mid-point and a touch below it on the broader deprivation measure, which puts it in solidly comfortable rather than exclusive territory — a median house price a little over the Dorset average, and detached homes here actually fetching more than the national norm for that type. Safety is the standout in the grade pattern: against a set of otherwise respectable B and B+ marks for housing, health, and nightlife, safety comes back A+, and the numbers back it up — total recorded crime for the year sits in the teens, low enough that violent and sexual offences making up over a third of that tally is a function of small totals rather than a real pattern to worry about. The one grade that doesn't match the comfortable theme is connectivity, a plain C+, and with full-fibre coverage sitting around seventy per cent, streaming on a Saturday night isn't guaranteed to be smooth everywhere.