Landrends
Suburb · 55 residents
60Good
Good · better than 5 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
- Food & drink scores 76, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 36 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Health scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Environment scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Landrends
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Landrends a good place to live?
Landrends scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (76) and safety (73).
It scores lowest on environment (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Landrends in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Landrends
Detached houses on generous plots, low garden walls, cars parked on driveways rather than kerbs — Landrends reads as a scattered rural pocket of Cornwall rather than anything resembling a town centre. With a population barely into three figures and a density that's a fraction of the national average, this is the kind of place where you notice a car passing rather than a crowd.
The numbers on crime need a health warning before anything else: two recorded incidents in the past year sounds negligible, and in absolute terms it is, but against a population this small the rate per head comes out wildly above the Cornwall average. That's less a verdict on Landrends and more a reminder that tiny populations make percentages behave oddly — a handful of incidents in a hamlet moves the dial far more than the same handful would in a market town. Tregadillett Primary School, rated Good, is the nearest schooling reference point, and with a median age around 54 you're looking at a place shaped more by long-settled households than young families doing the school run.
Housing here is almost entirely detached and freehold — of the recent sales sampled, the large majority were detached houses, and every single one was freehold, which tells you plainly what a for-sale board means locally: no leaseholds to untangle, no flats to compete with, just houses on their own land. Prices sit a little below the Cornwall median and well below the national figure for detached homes specifically, which for this property type is a meaningful discount rather than a rounding difference. Rents, where they exist, land under both the regional and national averages too. Broadband is a genuine mixed bag — full fibre reaches a bit over six in ten properties, decent for a rural spot but not something to take for granted if you work from home.