St Donat's
Village · 234 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Environment scores 87, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 51 per 1,000 people a year against 99
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- 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 St Donat's a good place to live?
St Donat's scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (87) and safety (72).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St Donat's in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St Donat's
St Donat's barely counts as a village at all — a scatter of houses, a coastline, and one large gate marked Atlantic College, which does more to define the place than anything else here. This is the Vale of Glamorgan coast doing what it does best: quiet lanes, stone boundary walls, a sense that most of what happens here happens behind hedges rather than on a visible high street. With a population you could fit in a single large hall, it reads less as a community with amenities and more as a residential footnote to the college and the coast path.
The practical picture is thin but tells its own story. There's a single named school, Atlantic College itself — an independent international sixth-form college rather than a local primary or comprehensive, which means families with younger children are looking elsewhere for day-to-day schooling. Two transport stops serve the village, with no rail station recorded here, so this is a driving life, or at best a lift to a station further along the coast. The median age of 39.5, younger than the Welsh average of 43, hints at a working-age population rather than a retirement pocket, which fits a place shaped more by the college's staff and orbit than by conventional commuter patterns.
Housing here sits firmly at the well-off end of the market: detached homes on freehold titles dominate the eleven recorded sales, with a median price of £290,000, comfortably above both the Welsh average and the price typical of the Vale of Glamorgan itself. This is a small, income-decile-10 corner of Wales — among the least deprived on the WIMD scale — and the property type matches that: this is not a place where you'll find a starter flat, it's a place where a For Sale board means a detached house with land around it. Green space is technically modest on paper, but that undersells a village whose real outdoor life is the Glamorgan Heritage Coast on its doorstep rather than a municipal park. Eating out, shopping, evenings out — these happen elsewhere, in Cowbridge or Llantwit Major, because St Donat's itself isn't built for footfall.