Seaton is a seaside community, angling harbour as well as civil parish in East Devon on the south coastline of England, and is traditionally part of Axmouth (to the eastern) and Beer (to the west). It faces onto Lyme Bay and also gets on the Dorset and also East Devon Coast Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. A sea wall offers accessibility to the primarily shingle beach stretching for about a mile, and a little harbour, situated generally in the Axmouth area. Seaton's recorded population at the 2011 Census, was 8,413, whilst the Seaton as well as Beer Urban Area that consists of Colyton had an estimated population of 12,815 in 2012 The Seaton electoral ward, which includes Beer, Axmouth and also Colyton, had a population of 7,096 at the above census. There are 3,300 homes in the parish, of which around one third are of single-person tenancy. Most of those individuals are of pensionable age.Its setting alongside floodplains as well as hemmed in by hills on either side means development is difficult as well as has interfered with development of regional employment. In 2010 redevelopment of a huge section of the town begun with new company sites providing a much required rise in non-seasonal employment.