What's the median rent in Shiphay & the Willows?

The median monthly rent across Shiphay & the Willows is £899.

How well-connected is Shiphay & the Willows?

Transport score: — out of 100. Combines walking time to the nearest rail station, walking time to the nearest metro stop, and public-transport time to clusters with 5,000+ jobs. The nearest rail station is roughly 22 minutes' walk.

What schools are near Shiphay & the Willows?

There are 11 schools within 2 km of Shiphay & the Willows, of which 50% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 1376 m away.

What is the council tax band in Shiphay & the Willows?

The most common council tax band in Shiphay & the Willows is C, with the typical Band D annual charge around £2,342. Council tax is set by Torbay council and applies to every property in the area.

How long is the commute from Shiphay & the Willows to London?

By the fastest direct train, the journey from Shiphay & the Willows to central London is approximately 204 minutes. This is the fastest no-change rail journey from the local area centroid; door-to-door times will vary with walking time to the station.

Is gigabit broadband available in Shiphay & the Willows?

100% of premises in Shiphay & the Willows are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.

What is the deprivation rank of Shiphay & the Willows?

Shiphay & the Willows sits in IMD decile 6 of 10, where 1 is the most deprived 10% of local areas nationally and 10 is the least deprived. The Index of Multiple Deprivation combines income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers and environment.

What's the tenure mix in Shiphay & the Willows?

58% of households in Shiphay & the Willows are owner-occupied. The remainder is split between private renting and social housing — see the Demographics section for the full breakdown from Census 2021.

What is the average property price in Shiphay & the Willows?

The average property price across Torbay (the local authority covering Shiphay & the Willows) is approximately £230,232, per HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Per-local area prices vary; see the cost-of-living section for medians by property type.

Is Shiphay & the Willows a commuter town or workplace hub?

Commuter town — most working residents travel out for work. (0.34 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £28,963.)

Which local areas are part of Shiphay & the Willows?

Shiphay & the Willows contains 7 local areas: Torbay 003E, Torbay 003H, Torbay 003G, Torbay 003B, Torbay 003F…

What is the average rent in Shiphay & the Willows?

The estimated median monthly rent in Shiphay & the Willows is £899. This is derived from the council-area ONS rental figure scaled by the local sale-price gradient — see the Cost section for the breakdown by bedroom count and the affordability ratio against local salaries.

Is Shiphay & the Willows a safe place to live?

Shiphay & the Willows has a safety score of 71/100. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crime per 1,000 residents, inverted so 100 is the safest 1% of England + Wales. The Safety section below shows the breakdown by category.

What schools are near Shiphay & the Willows?

50% of schools within 2 km of Shiphay & the Willows are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.

How long is the commute from Shiphay & the Willows?

Public-transport commute time from Shiphay & the Willows to central London is approximately 204 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.

How is Shiphay & the Willows different from the rest of Torbay?

Shiphay & the Willows contains 7 sub-areas. The "Sub-areas" section below lets you drill into each one individually — they often vary by 20%+ on rent and demographics within the same neighbourhood.

Where does Shiphay & the Willows rank in Torbay?

Shiphay & the Willows scores 94/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Torbay, see the Cities table on the Torbay page.

Neighbourhood · Torbay · South West

Shiphay & the Willows

Torbay 003 · 7 sub-areas · 10,521 residents

Updated May 2026

Verdict

How are these scored? →

Best for Couples (85/100)Watch-out: Investors / BTL (61/100)Liveability 94/100 · Best 10%Residential

Shiphay & the Willows is a settled residential pocket of Torbay. The bigger gravitational centre is Bristol, around 135 minutes away by direct train, but most days don't require leaving — local life is what people are here for.

Median rent

£899+4.6%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Crime / 1k / yr

86.2

Above median

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Best hub commute

135 min

Direct to Bristol

Network Rail TTIS (CIF) · Apr 2026

Good schools 2 km

50%

11 schools within 2 km

Ofsted (spatial) · Feb 2026

Liveability

94/100

Best 10%

Population

10,521

7 sub-areas

ONS LSOA mid-2024 estimates · 2024

Overview

What's it like to live in Shiphay & the Willows?

A snapshot of Shiphay & the Willows

Greenspace is on the doorstep — a park or playing field is within walking distance of most homes; The streets feel safe by national standards — police-recorded crime is well below the country-wide median; Public transport is genuinely strong; most errands and a fair share of social life don't need a car; rents are below the national norm, with a typical home letting at around £899 a month; gigabit broadband is effectively universal.

Generated from the latest May 2026 data · refreshed automatically

Figures are aggregated across 7 sub-areas — population-weighted means for rates, sums for counts. Sources cited beneath each section.

Shiphay & the Willows in Torbay

Cost

Cost of living

What does it cost to live here?

Rent runs at £899 a month — 18% below the national median. Council tax is most commonly Band C.

Median rentCouncil area

£899/mo

Up 4.6% on last year

−£201 vs nat'l avg

Total monthly baseline

£1,094/mo

Rent + council tax + indicative utilities

Council tax — modal bandCouncil area

Around £2,342/yr · £195/mo

Years to save 10% deposit

4.6 yr

Assumes saving 20% of gross salary

−8% vs nat'l avg

Rent — whole property and per room (sharing)2-bed: £797/mo · £399/room

By bedroom count

1 bedroom£605/mosolo only

2 bedrooms£797/mo£399/mo per room shared

3 bedrooms£972/mo£324/mo per room shared

4 bedrooms£1,269/mo£317/mo per room shared

By property type

Flat£696/mo

Terraced house£916/mo

Semi-detached£971/mo

Detached house£1,189/mo

Can you afford to live here?Rent as a share of take-home, four common living arrangements

Renting alone

Whole property, on the local median salary

44%

of take-home

£899/mo per person · take-home £2,031/moTight but workable

Sharing a 2-bed

Half a 2-bed flat, on the local median salary

20%

of take-home

£399/mo per person · take-home £2,031/moComfortable

Sharing a 3-bed

One room in a 3-bed flat-share

16%

of take-home

£324/mo per person · take-home £2,031/moComfortable

Couple, two incomes

Whole property split between two earners on the local median salary

22%

of take-home

£450/mo per person · take-home £2,031/moComfortable

Take-home is calculated from the median resident salary using UK 2024–25 income-tax + NI bands. Higher earners and dual-income households see lower percentages than the table shows; the median figures are a market benchmark, not a personal estimate.

Buying — affordability detail~£1,394/mo on a 25-year mortgage at 5%

Median sale price (Land Registry)£265,000

Average price (HPI, smoother)Council area£230,232-0.9% YoY

Estimated monthly mortgage£1,394/mo

Gross rental yield (BTL)3.6%

Years to save 10% deposit4.6 years

Bills — council tax, energy, fuel povertyCouncil tax (Band D, all-in): £2,470/yr

Council tax — Band D (incl. precepts)Council area£2,470/yr

Council tax — band-mix-weighted (typical home)Council area£2,342/yr

EPC median rating—

Homes rated A or B4%

Households in fuel poverty8.6%

Source: ONS PIPR (rent), HM Land Registry / HMLR HPI (sale prices), VOA + MHCLG (council tax), MHCLG EPC bulk download, DESNZ LILEE (fuel poverty).

Safety

How safe is Shiphay & the Willows?

Safety scores 71/100 against the national distribution, with police-recorded crime running in line with the national average (86.2 per 1,000 residents per year).

Crime / 1k / yr

86.2

recorded incidents per 1,000 residents · 11 / month

Safety scoreHow? →

71/100

Higher is safer (national percentile)

Deprivation decile

6/10

1 = most deprived nationally · 10 = least

How crime is measured

What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.

Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.

Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.

Crime by category, per 1,000 residents per yearBar lengths show share of total recorded crime.

Violent & sexual offences

39.2 /1k

Anti-social behaviour

7.1 /1k

Public order

4.0 /1k

Vehicle crime

2.1 /1k

Criminal damage & arson

6.0 /1k

Burglary

1.6 /1k

Other theft

4.0 /1k

Shoplifting

6.0 /1k

Drugs

3.1 /1k

Theft from the person

0.7 /1k

Possession of weapons

2.0 /1k

Robbery

0.7 /1k

Bicycle theft

0.8 /1k

Source: data.police.uk monthly counts (12-month rolling, normalised by ONS mid-year population). Greater Manchester values use IMD 2019 crime-domain proxy.

Transport

Getting around Shiphay & the Willows

Strong transport links — 75/100; nearest rail station is Torre at around 1734 m; 70 bus stops within five minutes' walk; Bristol is reachable in 135 minutes by direct train.

Transport scoreHow? →

75/100

Above median

Best hub commute

135 min

Direct to Bristol

WFH share

20%

Census 2021 — work mostly from home

Nearest National Rail

Torre

1.7 km walk · 135 min to Bristol

Nearest tube / metro / tram

Out of metro reach

Nearest metro is more than 5 km away.

Commute by train to major UK hubsFastest: Bristol in 135 min

London

204 min

Manchesterapprox

298 min

Birminghamapprox

198 min

Leedsapprox

328 min

Liverpoolapprox

484 min

Bristol

135 min

Sheffieldapprox

283 min

Edinburghapprox

512 min

Glasgowapprox

582 min

Cardiff

219 min

Walking time from the LSOA centroid to the nearest station, plus the fastest direct train from there. Routes that require a change of train are marked “approx” (haversine fallback).

How residents commute (Census 2021)20% work from home

Drive62%Public transport3%Walk / cycle13%Work from home20%

Method of travel to work for residents in employment, Census 2021 (TS061).

Broadband — gigabit available (1,000 Mbps) to most homesTop speed available: 1,000 Mbps · effectively universal

Top advertised speedCouncil area1,000 Mbps (gigabit)

Gigabit-ready (1,000 Mbps)Council area100% of premises

Ultrafast (≥300 Mbps)Council area100% of premises

Below USO (under 10 Mbps)Council area0.0% of premises

Outdoor 5G coverageCouncil area100%

Coverage from Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Top speeds reflect what's available to buy at the address; actual experienced speeds depend on the chosen package and provider.

Source: National Rail TTIS timetable (direct journey times), TfL Open Data + OSM (metros), Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, ONS Census 2021 (TS061).

Schools

Schools near Shiphay & the Willows

11 schools within a 2 km radius; around 50% rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest Outstanding school, Torquay Girls' Grammar School, is around 958 m away.

School scoreHow? →

93/100

Best 10%

Schools within 2 km

6 rated Good or Outstanding

% Good or Outstanding

50%

Of all schools within 2 km

−20.0 pp vs nat'l avg

Nearest Outstanding school

Torquay Girls' Grammar School

958 m from the centroid

Closest schools5 closest within ~5 km of the centroid

Name	Phase	Rating	Distance
Torquay Girls' Grammar School	Academy Converter	Outstanding	958 m
Torquay Boys' Grammar School	Academy Converter	Good	1.0 km
The Lodestar Academy	Academy Alternative Provision Sponsor Led	Good	1.1 km
Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Primary School	Academy Converter	Good	1.3 km
Lift Barton Hill	Academy Sponsor Led	Good	1.3 km

Source: Ofsted school inspection ratings (latest inspection per school), spatially joined to the local area centroid via PostGIS.

Daily life

What's actually around Shiphay & the Willows?

OpenStreetMap counts of the things people use day-to-day — pubs, restaurants, parks, cinemas, supermarkets — within walking distance of the centroid.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Counts derived via the Overpass API and refreshed monthly.

Eat & drink

Pubs2≤ 500 m
Bars0≤ 500 m
Restaurants1≤ 500 m
Cafés0≤ 500 m
Cuisine variety1≤ 1 km

Going out

Cinemas0≤ 2 km
Theatres0≤ 2 km
Museums0≤ 2 km
Galleries0≤ 2 km
Nightclubs0≤ 1 km

Practical & family

Supermarkets2≤ 500 m
Libraries0≤ 500 m
Parks1≤ 500 m
Playgrounds3≤ 500 m
Gyms1≤ 1 km

Getting around

Bus stops (close)70≤ 500 m
Bus stops (wider)70≤ 1 km
Rail stations0≤ 500 m
Tube entrances0≤ 500 m
Tram stops0≤ 500 m

Who it suits

Is Shiphay & the Willows right for you?

Six persona fit scores from 0–100 — each built from the metrics that group actually optimises for. Click through to the matching ranked list for the wider region.

Families

69/100

Good fit

Schools rate reasonably (50% Good+ within 2 km), tenure mix is settled, and safety scores above the median.

See schools ranking →

Young professionals

70/100

Good fit

Transport scores 75/100 and gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

See transport ranking →

Couples

85/100

Great fit

Liveability 94/100, safety 71/100 and median rent at £899/mo combine to make this a comfortable choice for a couple.

See affordability ranking →

Retirees

69/100

Good fit

Healthcare is close (GP ~898 m, hospital ~0.9 km), greenspace is walkable, and 20% of residents are 65+ — an established peer group.

See safety ranking →

Investors / BTL

61/100

Good fit

Gross yield 3.6%, capital growth -0.9% YoY, 28% private-rented stock — strong tenant pool with reasonable demand and supply balance.

See earnings ranking →

Solo renters

70/100

Good fit

Private-rental stock is decent (28% PRS), 25% of households are single-person, with transit a short walk away.

See transport ranking →

How these ratings are built

Each persona has its own scoring model. We pick the metrics that group actually optimises for, then weight and curve them so realistic trade-offs are reflected — a great score in one factor can't fully paper over a poor score in another. Weights sum to 100 before any synergy bonuses.

Families

Families consistently prioritise schooling and a safe, settled neighbourhood, so those two factors carry the most weight and use a convex curve — mediocre values are penalised more than a simple average would suggest. A bonus is applied where good schools and low crime coincide.

Good+ schools within 2 km28%
Crime / safety score22%
Households with children15%
Greenspace proximity15%
Owner-occupation rate10%
Family-age population10%

Young professionals

Young professionals optimise for commute, connectivity and being around peers. Transport gets the largest single weight; broadband uses a concave curve so any decent gigabit coverage counts, and a bonus applies in well-connected, graduate-heavy areas (the classic urban knowledge-hub signal).

Transport / PTAL score27%
18–34 population share22%
Gigabit broadband coverage18%
Degree-educated adults14%
Crime / safety score12%
Private-rental availability7%

Couples

Couples without children weight liveability and day-to-day quality highest. Rent is on a sigmoid curve with a steep cliff between £800 and £1,400/month, reflecting how affordability flips from comfortable to stretched across that range. A bonus applies where the area is both safe and walkable.

Liveability composite25%
Crime / safety score22%
Transport / PTAL score18%
Median rent affordability17%
EPC energy efficiency10%
25–49 population share8%

Retirees

Retirees prioritise healthcare proximity, walkable greenspace and a settled neighbourhood with peers in the same life stage. GP and hospital distance are the largest weights — both use exponential drop-offs because needing care 5 km away is much worse than 1 km away, regardless of how many other amenities are nearby.

GP proximity22%
Hospital proximity18%
Crime / safety score18%
Greenspace proximity14%
Over-65 population share10%
Single-floor accommodation10%
Owner-occupation rate8%

Investors / BTL

Buy-to-let investors weight pure financial signals: yield, capital growth, tenant demand, supply pipeline and area job-growth. Crime and amenities only matter as far as they protect the tenant pool. Yield uses a sigmoid that rewards the realistic 4–7% band; pipeline penalises areas with heavy new-build supply that will pressure future rents.

Gross rental yield32%
House-price growth (HPI YoY)20%
Tenant demand18%
5-year jobs growth12%
Supply pipeline (inverse)10%
Safety score8%

Solo renters

Solo renters and students optimise for flexibility — depth of private-rental supply, peers in the same life stage and frictionless transit. Cost matters but the curve is gentler than for couples (no shared income). A nearby Tube/metro/rail station is heavily weighted because cars are usually off the table for this group.

Private-rental availability22%
Single-person households18%
Transit proximity16%
Median rent affordability14%
18–34 population share12%
Gigabit broadband coverage10%
Crime / safety score8%

Demographics

Who lives here?

Census 2021 demographic profile.

Age profile

Under 1821%18–3419%35–4920%50–6420%65+20%

Tenure

Owned58%Private rent28%Social rent8%

Households

One person25%Couple with children23%Lone parent12%Other5%

Property types

Flat5%Terraced14%Semi-detached37%Detached22%

Ethnic mix and country of birthDiversity index: 14/100

Ethnic group

White93%Asian4%Black0%Mixed2%Other1%

Country of birth

UK-born91%Born outside UK9%

Religion

Christian46%Muslim1%No religion46%Other1%

Education and health26% degree-educated

Degree-educated (16+)26.1%−7.4 pp vs nat'l

No qualifications16.1%

Self-rated good or very good health83.1%

Self-rated bad or very bad health5.0%

Disabled (Equality Act)16.8%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (TS001 / TS003 / TS004 / TS021 / TS030 / TS037 / TS038 / TS044 / TS061 / TS066 / TS067).

Employment

Work and income

primarily residential — most working residents commute out (0.34 jobs per resident); median resident salary £28,963/year; 3.7% on the DWP claimant count.

Median resident salaryCouncil area

£28,963/yr

Workplace earnings of people who live here

Unemployment rate (ILO)

4.1%

ONS ILO method — 63% economically active (Census 2021)

Jobs in the council areaCouncil area

59,000

0.34 jobs per working-age resident

Working status of 16+ residents (Census 2021)ILO unemployment 4.1% · 63% economically active · 37% inactive

ILO unemployment rate: 4.1% — This uses the same methodology as the ONS Labour Force Survey: unemployment is expressed as a share of the economically active population (employed + job-seeking only), not all 16+ residents. Retirees, students, full-time carers and others who are “inactive” are excluded from the denominator, giving a like-for-like figure to the national headline rate.

Employed61%Unemployed3%Inactive37%

Census 2021 TS066. The three bars above share a denominator of all residents aged 16+ and always sum to 100%. "Inactive" covers students, retirees, full-time carers, the long-term sick and anyone not currently seeking work — which is why the raw employed% figure is lower than the LFS employment rate. The ILO unemployment rate above strips out inactive residents and matches the standard definition used in national statistics.

DWP claimant count: 3.7% of working-age (16-64) residents claim Universal Credit while seeking work or Jobseeker's Allowance. This is the live monthly unemployment proxy and is not directly comparable to the Census figures above — it counts a narrower group on a different denominator, but it's the most up-to-date local indicator.

Local job mix (BRES sectors, SIC 2007)Top sector: Retail & hospitality

Health & social

26.4%

Retail & hospitality

31.1%

Education

8.9%

Manufacturing

4.0%

Professional

5.4%

Construction

3.6%

Tech & ICT

1.3%

Finance

0.7%

Net commute flow: +47,482 jobs vs. working-age residents. More jobs than workers — net commuter inflow.

Source: ONS ASHE (resident salary), ONS Census 2021 TS066 (economic activity), ONS BRES NM_189_1 (jobs by sector), DWP claimant count.

Inside this neighbourhood

Sub-areas and postcodes in Shiphay & the Willows

7 sub-areas and 200+ postcodes. Tap any to drill in — hover previews on desktop.

Sub-area	Median rent	Liveability	Safety	Transport
Torbay 003E	£899	99	74	78	View →
Torbay 003H	£899	94	41	33	View →
Torbay 003G	£899	63	46	33	View →
Torbay 003B	£899	99	80	79	View →
Torbay 003F	£899	39	11	70	View →
Torbay 003A	£899	93	71	75	View →
Torbay 003C	£899	98	89	83	View →

Postcodes covered

In Torbay 003E

TQ12 4SU TQ2 7AZ TQ2 7BJ TQ2 7FU TQ2 7FW TQ2 7FX TQ2 7GH TQ2 7GJ TQ2 7HT TQ2 7SB

In Torbay 003H

TQ1 2BQ TQ1 2ZN TQ1 4XR TQ1 9ET TQ1 9FE TQ1 9GW TQ1 9GZ TQ1 9HH TQ1 9HY TQ1 9JA TQ1 9JG TQ1 9JH TQ1 9JL TQ1 9JN TQ1 9JP TQ1 9JZ TQ1 9NA TQ1 9ND TQ1 9NE TQ1 9NF TQ1 9NL TQ1 9NQ TQ1 9NT TQ1 9NU TQ1 9ZZ TQ2 7AJ TQ2 7AP TQ2 7BE TQ2 7FH TQ2 7FJ TQ2 7FP TQ2 7FR TQ2 7GD TQ2 7GE TQ2 7GT TQ2 7GU TQ2 7GW TQ2 7GY TQ2 7GZ TQ2 7QG TQ2 7QL TQ2 7QN

In Torbay 003C

TQ2 7AA TQ2 7AB TQ2 7BP TQ2 7BZ TQ2 7DA TQ2 7DB TQ2 7DD TQ2 7DE TQ2 7DF TQ2 7DG TQ2 7DH TQ2 7DJ TQ2 7DL TQ2 7DN TQ2 7DQ TQ2 7DU TQ2 7DW TQ2 7ED TQ2 7HD TQ2 7HN TQ2 7HP TQ2 7HW TQ2 7LJ

In Torbay 003F

TQ2 7AD TQ2 7AE TQ2 7AF TQ2 7AG TQ2 7AH TQ2 7AL TQ2 7AQ TQ2 7BA TQ2 7ER TQ2 7ET TQ2 7EU TQ2 7EX TQ2 7EY TQ2 7EZ TQ2 7FT TQ2 7HA TQ2 7HB TQ2 7HE TQ2 7HF TQ2 7HG TQ2 7HH TQ2 7HL TQ2 7HQ TQ2 7HR TQ2 7HS TQ2 7JA TQ2 7JB TQ2 7JD TQ2 7JE TQ2 7JN TQ2 7JP TQ2 7JR TQ2 7JS TQ2 7JT TQ2 7JU TQ2 7JW TQ2 7JX TQ2 7JY TQ2 7JZ TQ2 7LA TQ2 7LB TQ2 7LD TQ2 7LE

In Torbay 003G

TQ2 7BG TQ2 7BH TQ2 7BQ TQ2 7BR TQ2 7BT TQ2 7BU TQ2 7DS TQ2 7DT TQ2 7FE TQ2 7FG TQ2 7FL TQ2 7FN TQ2 7FZ TQ2 7GA TQ2 7GB TQ2 7GF TQ2 7GG TQ2 7GL TQ2 7GN TQ2 7GP TQ2 7GQ TQ2 7GR TQ2 7GS

In Torbay 003A

TQ2 7BS TQ2 7BX TQ2 7BY TQ2 7DP TQ2 7EE TQ2 7EF TQ2 7EG TQ2 7EQ TQ2 7FB TQ2 7FD TQ2 7HJ TQ2 7JJ TQ2 7JQ TQ2 7LL TQ2 7LN TQ2 7LP TQ2 7LR TQ2 7LS TQ2 7LT TQ2 7LU TQ2 7LW TQ2 7LX TQ2 7LY TQ2 7LZ TQ2 7NA TQ2 7NB TQ2 7NE TQ2 7NF TQ2 7NG TQ2 7NH TQ2 7NQ TQ2 7PA TQ2 7RB

In Torbay 003B

TQ2 7FA TQ2 7FF TQ2 7FY TQ2 7JF TQ2 7JG TQ2 7ND TQ2 7RA TQ2 7RD TQ2 7RE TQ2 7RF TQ2 7RG TQ2 7RH TQ2 7RJ TQ2 7RL TQ2 7RN TQ2 7RP TQ2 7RQ TQ2 7RR TQ2 7RS TQ2 7RT TQ2 7RU TQ2 7RW TQ2 7RX TQ2 7RY TQ2 7RZ TQ2 7SA

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FAQ

Frequently asked

What's the median rent in Shiphay & the Willows?: The median monthly rent across Shiphay & the Willows is £899.
How safe is Shiphay & the Willows?: Shiphay & the Willows has a safety score of — out of 100, where higher is safer. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted.
How well-connected is Shiphay & the Willows?: Transport score: — out of 100. Combines walking time to the nearest rail station, walking time to the nearest metro stop, and public-transport time to clusters with 5,000+ jobs. The nearest rail station is roughly 22 minutes' walk.
What schools are near Shiphay & the Willows?: There are 11 schools within 2 km of Shiphay & the Willows, of which 50% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 1376 m away.
What is the council tax band in Shiphay & the Willows?: The most common council tax band in Shiphay & the Willows is C, with the typical Band D annual charge around £2,342. Council tax is set by Torbay council and applies to every property in the area.
How long is the commute from Shiphay & the Willows to London?: By the fastest direct train, the journey from Shiphay & the Willows to central London is approximately 204 minutes. This is the fastest no-change rail journey from the local area centroid; door-to-door times will vary with walking time to the station.
Is gigabit broadband available in Shiphay & the Willows?: 100% of premises in Shiphay & the Willows are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.
What is the deprivation rank of Shiphay & the Willows?: Shiphay & the Willows sits in IMD decile 6 of 10, where 1 is the most deprived 10% of local areas nationally and 10 is the least deprived. The Index of Multiple Deprivation combines income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers and environment.
What's the tenure mix in Shiphay & the Willows?: 58% of households in Shiphay & the Willows are owner-occupied. The remainder is split between private renting and social housing — see the Demographics section for the full breakdown from Census 2021.
What is the average property price in Shiphay & the Willows?: The average property price across Torbay (the local authority covering Shiphay & the Willows) is approximately £230,232, per HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Per-local area prices vary; see the cost-of-living section for medians by property type.
Is Shiphay & the Willows a commuter town or workplace hub?: Commuter town — most working residents travel out for work. (0.34 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £28,963.)
Which local areas are part of Shiphay & the Willows?: Shiphay & the Willows contains 7 local areas: Torbay 003E, Torbay 003H, Torbay 003G, Torbay 003B, Torbay 003F…

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What is the average rent in Shiphay & the Willows?: The estimated median monthly rent in Shiphay & the Willows is £899. This is derived from the council-area ONS rental figure scaled by the local sale-price gradient — see the Cost section for the breakdown by bedroom count and the affordability ratio against local salaries.
Is Shiphay & the Willows a safe place to live?: Shiphay & the Willows has a safety score of 71/100. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crime per 1,000 residents, inverted so 100 is the safest 1% of England + Wales. The Safety section below shows the breakdown by category.
What schools are near Shiphay & the Willows?: 50% of schools within 2 km of Shiphay & the Willows are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.
How long is the commute from Shiphay & the Willows?: Public-transport commute time from Shiphay & the Willows to central London is approximately 204 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.
How is Shiphay & the Willows different from the rest of Torbay?: Shiphay & the Willows contains 7 sub-areas. The "Sub-areas" section below lets you drill into each one individually — they often vary by 20%+ on rent and demographics within the same neighbourhood.
Where does Shiphay & the Willows rank in Torbay?: Shiphay & the Willows scores 94/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Torbay, see the Cities table on the Torbay page.

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