Bridgend
Suburb · 107 residents
62Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Food & drink scores 74, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 65 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 12% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Infrastructure scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Bridgend a good place to live?
Bridgend scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (78) and food & drink (74).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bridgend in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bridgend
Terraced cottages line most streets here, the kind with a front door onto the pavement and a For Sale board that almost always reads freehold rather than leasehold. It's a small, quiet corner — under 300 people call it home — and the age profile tells you plenty before you've walked the length of it: the median resident is in their mid-fifties, well above the national average, which gives the place a settled, unhurried feel rather than a young-professional churn.
Lostwithiel Rail Station serves the area, which matters more here than it might elsewhere, since there's no dense bus network to fall back on — the transport grade is strong, but connectivity more broadly lags, so a car earns its keep even with trains on the doorstep. Schools carry a solid, if unspectacular, reputation locally. Housing is where the story sharpens: terraced homes dominate sales, freehold is the norm, and at a median around £252,500 that sits below both the national and regional averages — Bridgend prices in about 11% cheaper than the wider Cornwall benchmark, which is notable given how expensive the county has become elsewhere.
Green space is thin on the ground in the most literal sense — the two spaces logged here total well under half a hectare, so this isn't an area built around parkland; people head out to the coast and countryside beyond rather than to anything within the settlement itself. That absence sits oddly against an otherwise strong set of grades: safety and nightlife both come back as clearly above the national average, health provision likewise, and the overall picture is a comfortable B+. The crime figures back this up in raw terms — seventeen incidents across the past year is a small number for any area — yet the rate relative to Cornwall as a whole is sharply elevated, over three times the parent authority's typical level, with violence and sexual offences accounting for half of everything recorded. That's the one grade that doesn't match the rest of the pattern, and it's worth sitting with rather than dismissing: a low headline count can still represent a meaningfully higher rate once you compare like for like.