[2] It has a land surface area of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km2) and has a very small coastline at Le Dicq.

The most notable settlement is located around the Five Oaks area in the centre of the parish and Georgetown in the South.

[3] The church and parish hall are located half way along the road known as St Saviour's Hill.

[4] The parish is a first-level administrative division of the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown dependency.

[6] Under the proposed electoral reform, St Saviour will form a single constituency, electing five representatives alongside its Connétable.

The south of the parish is a highly urbanised part of town, focused around Georgetown and Five Oaks.

The parish church is Saint-Sauveur de l'Epine (St Saviour of the Thorn) and is dedicated to Jesus Christ.

[9] Within its precincts, when plague was raging in 1563, the Royal Court of Jersey found a refuge, by permission granted of Hugh Perrin, on whose fief the building stood.

She is buried in the churchyard, which is the largest of any of the island's parish churches, owing to the generosity of the Connétable in 1844.

Due to population growth after the Napoleonic Wars, a new ecclesiastical district was created for Havre des Pas, with the new church completed in 1851.