Tamerton Foliot
Neighbourhood · 133 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 3 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
- 100% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 12, below the typical 60
- Health scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Tamerton Foliot
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Tamerton Foliot a good place to live?
Tamerton Foliot scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (12) and health (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Tamerton Foliot in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Tamerton Foliot
Tamerton Foliot reads like a village that Plymouth grew out to rather than one it built from scratch — semi-detached and terraced houses along quiet residential roads, front gardens rather than shopfronts, and a pace that feels more Devon parish than city suburb. The median age of 40 tells you this isn't a place dominated by twenty-something sharers or student houses; it's settled, family-stage territory, with people who've been here a while and plan to stay.
Housing here is where the story gets interesting. A median price of £212,000 sits comfortably below both the regional figure and the national average, and it's actually a shade under what you'd pay across Plymouth as a whole — this is a cheaper corner of an already affordable city. Terraced and semi-detached homes dominate what sells, freehold is the norm rather than the exception, and that combination points to a settled owner-occupier street rather than one churning through rentals. The five-year direction on prices is described as improving, even if any single year will wobble either side of that line. On schooling, the area is thin on choice by design — Mary Dean's CofE Primary serves the immediate community, and Woodlands School caters separately for children with additional needs — so anyone moving here for a specific secondary school will need to look slightly wider than the village itself.
Green space is modest rather than generous — five plots amounting to under two hectares — so this isn't an area built around sprawling parkland, more pocket-sized spaces woven between the housing. Eating out and nightlife sit on the quieter end too; this is a place you leave for a proper night out rather than one that hosts it. Where the picture does need a straight look is safety. The overall grade sits comfortably above the national average, and most sub-scores follow that pattern, but safety is the one area singled out as strong in the grading despite crime running noticeably higher than the Plymouth-wide rate — violence and sexual offences alone account for six in ten recorded incidents. It's worth sitting with that tension rather than skating past it: the grade suggests confidence, the raw comparison to the parent authority suggests caution, and a prospective buyer should weigh both rather than either alone.