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Bovey Tracey

Bovey Tracey is a town in Devon, England, with a population of around 4,729. It has one school, one GP surgery, one pharmacy, two supermarkets, and around 10 restaurants and cafés, along with two bus stops and Riverside Station 3.9km away. There were around 13 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Bovey Tracey area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Teignbridge area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 134,801 residents at roughly 200 people per km².

Council
Teignbridge
County
Devon
Constituency
Central Devon
Police force
Devon & Cornwall
52/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 136th of 294 English council areas — better than 54% of them.

Home affordability45
Affordable rents58
Good schools49
Life expectancy65
Low deprivation54
Employment86
Low council tax6

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. Scored on 80% of the full weighting — some data isn't available here. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

8°CClear

  • Today: 12° / 5° · 13% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:09Sunset 16:47

9h 38m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Plymouth Centre, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 5.2 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 3.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

20 reported · August 2026▲ 18% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences7
  • Criminal damage & arson5
  • Anti-social behaviour3
  • Burglary3

Neighbourhood team: Bovey Tracey & Moretonhampstead · Devon And Cornwall

Local policing priorities

  • Theft - Shoplifting
  • Anti-Social Behaviour and Illegal E-Bikes

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

208 reported road collisions (2025)

35 killed or seriously injured · 301 casualties · 15.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

57 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 51 rated 4–5 ★ (48 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Riverside Station (3.9 km)
  • 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Newton Abbot (8.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£298,159 average▼ 0.5% YoY

Across Teignbridge · to 2026-08

Detached£471,265
Semi-detached£311,424
Terraced£245,489
Flat£149,582

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£961 average monthly rent▲ 3.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £655
  • 2 bed £869
  • 3 bed £1,086

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

8.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.7 times median annual pay (8.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,034 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (8.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (8.5 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

4 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Western Counties Roofing LTD (2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres2
  • Swimming pools5
  • Sports pitches12
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

134,801 residents in Teignbridge · 200/km²

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 57%
  • 65+: 27%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,925
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,788
  • Net moves+1,137

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 159 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,643 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (22% of 65,470)

A £1,762
B £2,056
C £2,349
D £2,643
E £3,230
F £3,818
G £4,405
H £5,286

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

70 schools · 16,497 pupils

47 primary · 7 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 23 of 26 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

57 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Coombeshead AcademyGood
  • South Devon UTCGood
  • Teign SchoolGood
  • Dawlish College
  • Newton Abbot College
  • South Dartmoor Community College
  • Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Teignbridge

Care & health services

829 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes309
  • GP practices118
  • Dentists156
  • Homecare agencies155
  • Hospitals & hospices39

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Devon

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Bovey Tracey Town Centre and Mary Street)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 77 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

191 applications decided

80.6% granted · 154 granted, 37 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Sir Mel Stride

Conservative

Central Devon

Recent votes:

  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Con 9
  • LD 25
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 12

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets2
  • Parks & greens2
  • Restaurants & cafés11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

6,730 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

10 jobs advertised · £25,646 avg

e.g. Full Time Bar Assistant, In Store Team Member, Kitchen Porter

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£689 median full-time weekly pay

2.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,367 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 67,262 certificates

10.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

12% low-carbon electricity

Gas 88% · Solar 9% · Wind 3%

348 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.4 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Devon): 64 women · 63.7 men

62% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.6
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

4 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in TQ13

  • Ashburton Surgery
  • Bovey Tracey & Chudleigh Practice
  • Moretonhampstead Health Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Central Devon:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Bovey Tracey · 0.2 km

    Bovey Tracey is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England. It is located on the edge of Dartmoor, which gives rise to the slogan used on the town's boundary signs: The Gateway to the Moor. It is often known loc…

  • Bovey Tracey Town Hall · 0.3 km

    Bovey Tracey Town Hall is a municipal building in Town Hall Place, Bovey Tracey, Devon, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Bovey Tracey Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

  • Bovey Tracey A.F.C. · 0.4 km

    Bovey Tracey Association Football Club is a football club based in Bovey Tracey, Devon, England. They are currently members of the Western League Premier Division and play at Mill Marsh Park.

  • Bovey railway station · 0.4 km

    Bovey railway station, sometimes known as Bovey for Ilsington, was a stop on the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway at Bovey Tracey, Devon, England.

  • Harbourne River · 0.6 km

    The Harbourne River is a river in Devon in England. Its estuary is known as Bow Creek, and flows into the River Dart near Stoke Gabriel.

  • Indio, Bovey Tracey · 0.6 km

    Indio in the parish of Bovey Tracey in Devon, is an historic estate. The present large mansion house, known as Indio House is a grade II listed building rebuilt in 1850, situated about 1/2 mile south of Bovey Tracey C…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Bovey Tracey?
Bovey Tracey is a town in Devon, England, in the Teignbridge local authority.
What is the population of Bovey Tracey?
Bovey Tracey has an approximate settlement population of 4,729.
How deprived is Bovey Tracey?
The Teignbridge local authority, which includes Bovey Tracey, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.