Lower Rosewarne
Suburb · 153 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 3 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 39 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 61% of the area
- Health scores 17, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Lower Rosewarne
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Lower Rosewarne a good place to live?
Lower Rosewarne scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (74).
It scores lowest on health (17) and environment (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Lower Rosewarne in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Lower Rosewarne
Detached bungalows and low-slung family houses along quiet residential roads, cars parked on the drive rather than the street, and a population small enough that everyone on it could plausibly fit into a village hall — that's the immediate feel of Lower Rosewarne. It reads as settled rather than transient, with a median age well into the fifties telling you this isn't a place full of shared houses or first-time buyers cutting their teeth.
Housing here is dominated by freehold detached and semi-detached sales, the kind of For Sale board that says "family home, long-term owner" rather than "buy-to-let opportunity" — helped along by a complete absence of new-build stock. Prices sit a little below Cornwall's own median, which itself undercuts the national figure, so this isn't an expensive corner of an expensive county, more a modest, comfortable one. Weeth Community Primary School, rated Good, gives the area a credible local option for anyone with young children, though the school roll and the age profile both suggest most residents here are past that stage of life. Broadband is serviceable rather than exceptional — full-fibre reaches a majority of properties but not an overwhelming one, which matters if you work from home.
Green space per head runs ahead of both the regional and national averages, and the density of the place is notably lower than the typical Cornish suburb, so there's more breathing room than the numbers for the wider county would suggest. Health-related grades come out strong, which lines up with an older population that has presumably chosen to stay rather than move on. The one figure that jars against this calm picture is crime relative to Cornwall as a whole — the rate here runs markedly higher than the county norm, almost entirely down to violence and sexual offences, which make up the bulk of a crime count that in absolute terms is still small given how few people live here. It's worth reading that as a statistical quirk of a tiny population base rather than a lived sense of danger, but it's the number that doesn't fit the otherwise settled, low-key tone of the place.