Woodbury
Suburb · 45 residents
67Good
Good · better than 8 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 82, well above the typical 60
- Health scores 81, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- 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 Woodbury a good place to live?
Woodbury scores 67/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (82) and health (81).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Woodbury in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Woodbury
Woodbury's terraces and semis sit close together on streets built for a population older than the national average, and that's the first thing you register — this isn't a place full of pushchairs and house-shares, it's a settled, established community where people tend to stay put rather than pass through. The turnover figures back up the impression: barely over one per cent of homes change hands in a given year, a touch below the national churn rate, which tells you most people who move here don't leave again quickly.
On paper this is comfortable territory — Woodbury sits in the ninth decile for deprivation, among the less deprived places in the country, and the typical home sells for around £322,500, noticeably above both the Somerset and national medians. Terraced houses dominate what's for sale, almost entirely freehold, and they're changing hands for well over the national terraced price — this is a market where even the modest-looking end of the stock commands a premium. Schools-wise, St Joseph and St Teresa Catholic Primary and The Blue School secondary serve the area; The Blue School's progress 8 score sits modestly positive, neither a standout nor a concern. With only one transport stop recorded locally, this reads as a place for drivers rather than commuters chasing a station platform.
Green space is tight rather than generous — just under three hectares across two sites, well below what you'd find regionally per head — so day-to-day life here is more front-room and high-street than park-and-picnic. The crime pattern is the detail worth sitting with: shoplifting and violent or sexual offences together account for over half of recorded incidents, and the overall crime rate sits sharply higher than the Somerset average, even though the area's own safety grade reads solidly and the trend is flat rather than worsening. That's the quiet tension in the numbers — a place that feels and scores safe on balance, sitting on a crime count that outpaces its county neighbours, likely concentrated in a small retail or town-centre footprint rather than spread evenly through residential streets.