Yes, if your idea of a good day involves a coast path and not a train. Nearly nine in ten households own their homes. Half the housing stock is bungalows. Crime sits at roughly half the district average. This is a place that solved the hard problems and left the timetable alone.
The bungalow is the defining building here. Just over half of every dwelling on the council-tax valuation list is a bungalow, with detached houses at around 28% and semis and terraces both in single figures. Flats barely register at about 1%. Only around 11% of the stock predates 1930, so the village that expanded when farmland went for housing in the twentieth century is the village you are buying into. Energy certificates put roughly 42% of certificated homes in bands A to C, with 42% sitting in band D alone and about 16% at band E or worse. Around 74% run on mains gas, which for a village this far down the peninsula is better news than buyers expect, and only around 4% are electric-only. Almost nothing is without central heating.
The Land Registry's last twelve months to February 2026 put the typical sale at around £378,000 across 29 transactions. Detached homes came in at a median of about £485,000 across 21 sales, semi-detached at roughly £315,000 and terraces at about £282,500. The detached figure is doing most of the work, which is what happens when the dominant stock is also the expensive stock. Council tax lands mostly in band D, with only around 18% of dwellings in bands A or B combined, so the cheap end of the banding barely exists here. Band D bills run to about £2,615 a year.
Renting is thin ground. The Office for National Statistics puts typical private rent across the South Hams area at about £1,000 a month as of April 2026, up around 3% on the year. That is a district figure covering everything from Totnes to the estuary villages, not Wembury's own, and with roughly 88% of homes owner-occupied the local rental pool is small enough that the district average is the best guide going.
Recorded crime runs at about 23 incidents per thousand residents over the twelve months to May 2026, which is roughly 52% below the South Hams average of about 49. That is a published rate, not a back-of-envelope calculation. Devon and Cornwall Police charge in about 8% of cases against a national figure of around 12%, and record no suspect identified in about 26%. So the incidents are few, and the ones that happen are less likely to end in a charge than they would elsewhere. Whether that troubles you depends on how much you were planning to be burgled.
Ofsted has graded 172 settings across Devon, of which 138 are good or better and three are outstanding, with 31 requiring improvement and three inadequate. Wembury Primary School is in the village. Key stage two maths in the district's schools averages a score of 106, which is above the national benchmark of 100. Secondary means Plymstock School or Coombe Dean, both a car journey away: modelled travel times put the nearest secondary at about 13 minutes by car and roughly 55 minutes on foot, which tells you which of those actually happens.
Connectivity is where the good news stops. Around 0.2% of residents commute by train and about 1% by bus, against roughly 53% who drive and about 37% who work from home. Plymouth Rail Station is the station, and it is not in Wembury. The Department for Transport's modelling puts the nearest town centre at about 15 minutes by car and roughly 28 minutes on public transport, and the nearest hospital at about 30 minutes by car and around 80 minutes on public transport. Seventeen bus stops carry scheduled services, averaging about 25 weekday departures each, and all seventeen run at weekends. Broadband is the sharper disappointment: about 93% of premises can get superfast, but only around 7% can get gigabit. Mobile coverage is better, with roughly 91% of the area seeing all operators.
The Environment Agency's mapping puts none of Wembury in the river-and-sea flood zones. On the broader postcode indicators, which include surface water, about 6% of postcodes carry a high rating and around 30% a low one. Radon is the real environmental fact: every postcode here sits in band three or above, with a maximum band of High, so a radon test belongs on the survey list. The shoreline management policy across the whole area is no active intervention, meaning the coast is left to do what coasts do. Green space is 300 metres away on average with around five sites within a kilometre, water is under 500 metres, and the entire village sits inside the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Heritage constraints are light. Nine listed buildings, three of them grade two star, no conservation areas and no scheduled monuments inside the village bounds. Unless you have bought Langdon Court Hotel or one of the churches, the constraint on altering your home is the protected landscape designation rather than the building itself, which in practice means the planners care more about what your extension looks like from the coast path than from the road.
The people match the housing. Around 88% own outright or with a mortgage, the median age is about 57, and modelled household income runs to roughly £62,000 a year gross. Roughly 43% hold a degree. Around 18% of households are a single pensioner living alone. This page also covers Noss Mayo, across the water on the Yealm, which is the same proposition with a harbour attached.
Wembury suits people whose working life is portable or finished. If you can log in from a spare room with a sea view, or you have stopped needing to log in anywhere, the arithmetic works beautifully. It also suits families willing to drive to secondary school and treat the coast path as the compensation.
It does not suit anyone who needs a train, a late bus, or gigabit broadband to do their job. It does not suit a first-time buyer looking at the cheap end of the market, because there isn't one. And anyone who wants a village that does something after dark should keep driving.
Wembury is a good place to live and an honest one about what it is. Its real strength is the community and the setting, a village that guards its coastline and knows its neighbours. The weak spot is transport and connectivity, and it is not a small weak spot. Buy here if the drive is a price you have already agreed to pay.