Mary Tavy has a population of 840, making it the 95th largest place in Devon.
The other populations of Mary Tavy
Depending on where you draw the boundary, Mary Tavy has between 540 and 840 residents. Both are correct.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
840 | GeoNames |
| The built-up area Continuous development, where buildings sit less than 200m apart. Drawn from where the buildings are, not where the council boundary is. |
540 | ONS Census 2021 (2021) |
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Mary Tavy in context
Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.
The centre of Mary Tavy sits in postcode district PL19.
Crime, per 1,000 residents
| Category (police-recorded, 12 months) | Rate |
|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 29.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | 5.6 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 9.3 |
| Vehicle crime | 1.9 |
| Other theft | 3.7 |
| All recorded offences | 59.3 |
The all-offences line is a count of records, not a safety score: it weighs every category equally, which is exactly why we publish the categories. We deliberately do not combine them into a single index.
Figures are police-recorded crime (August 2025 to July 2026) located to this built-up area, per 1,000 residents at the 2021 census. Three cautions, each of which changes how a rate should be read: recorded crime is not crime experienced, because reporting rates differ by category and by place; the denominator counts residents, so town centres and visitor towns run high per resident precisely because many people there are not residents; and a high figure can reflect more reporting as easily as more crime. Percentiles compare towns of 10,000+ residents. Greater Manchester and Gloucestershire constabularies do not publish, so their towns show a note instead of a partial figure. Compare towns →
Broadband
| Availability | % of homes |
|---|---|
| Gigabit-capable (1,000 Mbit/s+) | 0.0% |
| Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | 99.6% |
Share of the 228 residential premises in this built-up area that the fixed network can serve at each speed, from Ofcom's Connected Nations coverage data (network state July 2025). Availability is what the line to a home can deliver if ordered, not what households actually subscribe to, and a full-fibre street where everyone bought the cheapest package shows 100% here. Percentile compares towns of 10,000+ residents. Compare towns →
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Nearby in Devon
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lamerton | 859 |
| 2 | Clyst St Mary | 849 |
| 3 | Woolacombe | 840 |
| 4 | High Bickington | 837 |
| 5 | Dousland | 833 |
| 6 | Kilmington | 830 |