Burraton Coombe
Suburb · 23 residents
51Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 43 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 17, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Burraton Coombe
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Burraton Coombe a good place to live?
Burraton Coombe scores 51/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (72) and safety (72).
It scores lowest on health (17) and food & drink (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Burraton Coombe in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Burraton Coombe
Burraton Coombe is the kind of place where a semi-detached house with a gravel drive and a hedge trimmed into a square counts as excitement. It's quiet in the way that small, settled Cornish suburbs are quiet — older residents, low turnover, nobody in a hurry on the pavement.
The age profile tells you most of what you need to know here: a median age north of 55, well above the regional and national norm, points to a place people move to rather than move through. Property sales are thin on the ground and freehold dominates completely — semis and detached houses, bought outright, held onto. A median sale price around £354,000 sits comfortably above the Cornwall-wide figure, roughly a quarter higher than the county typically asks, so this isn't a bargain corner of the unitary authority, it's one of its steadier, better-off pockets — income and deprivation deciles both sit near the top of the national scale.
Day-to-day, the picture reads as comfortable rather than eventful. Council tax bands run a touch above the national median, broadband is solid without being exceptional, and the general grade pattern — B and B+ across health, housing, environment, schools — describes a place that performs above the England average on the fundamentals without shouting about any one of them. The outlier is safety: graded B+ overall but flagged as worsening, and against Cornwall's own crime rate the local figure runs dramatically hotter, driven almost entirely by a small handful of violence and anti-social behaviour incidents. With a population this small, a handful of reported offences swings the percentages hard — worth reading as a data quirk of scale rather than a lived reality of danger, but it's the one thread that doesn't match the rest of the story.