BRETON SIDE, PL4 0BY House Prices & Local Information

PL4 0BY is an up-and-coming urban area on Breton Side, 0.3km from Barbican in Plymouth. Administratively it sits within St Peter and the Waterfront ward and the Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, PL4 0BY is a diverse renting area with many ethnic minority families, mostly European-born. Work and footfall patterns mark this as a large scale education zone — large schools, colleges, and universities, nationally widespread. This is a stable, socially diverse area (average age 37) — accessible for a wide range of households, from young families to empty nesters. 70% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence. Full-time employment stands at 20% — below average for the region, consistent with the area's higher deprivation indicators.

Safety: Crime rates are high (238 per 1,000 residents) — commercial zones and transport hubs in the vicinity contribute to these figures. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for PL4 0BY are sourced from Output Area E00172056 (shared with 69 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.