Doublebois in South West has a Check Local Score of 63/100 (good), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Doublebois isn't really a village in the way the word usually promises — it's a scatter of houses off the main Cornwall road, the kind of place you pass through rather than arrive at, with detached homes set well apart from each other and not much in the way of a visible centre.
That absence of a centre matters more than any figure here. With a population in the twenties and a density nowhere near the regional average, this is a place defined by space rather than amenity. There's one school in range, Braddock CofE Primary, a small academy of around a hundred pupils, but no Ofsted rating is recorded for it, so you'd be judging that one on a visit rather than a report. Transport is thin on the ground too — a handful of stops and no rail station named for the area — so this only works if you're driving, and the median age here, comfortably above the national figure, suggests it already suits people who've settled into that rhythm rather than commuters chasing a platform.
The property picture is straightforward: detached homes, freehold almost without exception, and a median price a touch above both Cornwall and the national figure — this is a buy-and-stay street, not a churn-and-flip one, and the sales sample here is small enough that any one house can move the average. Day-to-day life is where the numbers thin out further — no named park, no named restaurant, nothing on the ground to anchor a weekend, which tells you plainly that this is a base for the outdoors around it rather than a destination in itself. What does stand out, oddly, is the crime figure: a single recorded incident in twelve months sounds almost too quiet to be real, and set against Cornwall's own rate it reads as a rounding artefact of a tiny population rather than a meaningful safety story — treat it as noise, not a verdict.
This is a place for people who've already decided they want quiet over convenience — who don't mind driving for a pint of milk, a school run, or a train, and who value having land and distance from neighbours more than having things to walk to. If your instinct is to ask "but where's the shop", Doublebois has already answered you: there isn't one, and that absence is the whole character of the place.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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