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A town of 2,515 in Dyfed, Wales.
Saundersfoot grades D overall against UK towns: better than 13% of UK towns, and #13 of 23 in Dyfed. Its weakest is jobs & income (C−): mean household income £42,127; 2.4% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. The median home sold for £315,000 in the last three years, 7.5 times what households in the Pembrokeshire council area earn in a year.
Dyfed Powys Police published 32 of the 36 months; rates are per year over the months published. This town's Health Grade uses ONS's small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for 2019 to 2023, and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. English towns' grades also use OHID's small-area early deaths, hospital admissions and child obesity, which OHID publishes for England only.
The 3 things Saundersfoot does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Wales), ordered by how far Saundersfoot is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Cadw lists 18 buildings inside Saundersfoot’s built-up area, and 1 scheduled monument.
18% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
The archive holds 2 old photos and postcards going back to 1927.
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Saundersfoot. Best known first.
CastleTenby Castle3 km outside town, to the south
MuseumTenby Museum & Art Gallery3 km outside town, to the south
Garden · National TrustColby Woodland Garden3 km outside town, to the northeast
CastleAmroth Castle3.4 km outside town, to the northeast
CastleSt Catherine's Fort3.3 km outside town, to the southPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saundersfoot.
On this, Saundersfoot is above both Dyfed’s towns (24%) and Wales’s towns (21%). Children under 15 make up 9.9% of residents. The median resident of Saundersfoot is 58.7 years old.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Saundersfoot | Dyfed | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 9.9% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.2% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 22% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 39% | 24% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 20% | 19% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.8% | 6.1% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 14% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 34% | 30% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Dyfed and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Its one school is below. Wales publishes no school-level results, so its schools have no letters.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saundersfoot C.P. SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 172 | – |
In the comparison, Saundersfoot comes above both Dyfed’s towns (65%) and Wales’s towns (65%). Social housing holds 8% of households. No town in Dyfed costs more to buy into than Saundersfoot, at £315,000, the highest of 23.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £380,000 | 95 |
| Semi-detached | £269,000 | 32 |
| Terraced | £267,000 | 9 |
| Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | 27 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Police recorded 157 crimes inside Saundersfoot’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 10 reports of anti-social behaviour. Among the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Saundersfoot has more crime per resident than 72% of them. Violence and sexual offences were 57% of the crimes; the police category includes harassment and stalking.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL
76% of Saundersfoot’s residents described their health as good or very good in 2021, against 77% across Dyfed’s towns. These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy.
| Census 2021 | Saundersfoot | Dyfed | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 76% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.3% | 7.4% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 23% | 23% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
For Saundersfoot, that is above both Dyfed’s towns (0%) and Wales’s towns (0%). 18% of homes were built before 1919.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 30% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Saundersfoot sits below both Dyfed’s towns (41%) and Wales’s towns (41%) on this measure. 30% of workers worked mainly from home at the census.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
18 listed buildings in Saundersfoot.
Rose Cottage: Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · The Hean Inn: Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
3 notable people were born in Saundersfoot.
Rod de'Ath: Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saundersfoot | 2,515 | — | D | C | C | C+ |
| Wooden | 1,300 | 1.4 | — | C+ | B | C |
| Kilgetty | 1,247 | 1.9 | — | B− | B | C+ |
| Tenby | 4,092 | 2.4 | D | B− | D | C |
| Narberth | 2,365 | 6.6 | — | B+ | C | C+ |
| Whitland | 1,907 | 8.6 | — | B | C− | C+ |
| Pembroke | 7,963 | 9.5 | D | B+ | D | D |
| Pembroke Dock | 9,659 | 10 | D | A− | D− | D− |
Wooden, Kilgetty, Narberth and Whitland have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
18 on Cadw’s list. That is 2.9 times the typical UK town for its size. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
Town in Dyfed, Wales
Saundersfoot is a built-up area of 2,515 people, in the Pembrokeshire council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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