New Mills sits in that quiet category of place that doesn't announce itself — a scatter of houses and a lane or two in Cornwall, the sort of hamlet you pass through rather than towards, with no high street to speak of and no crowd to read. There's honestly very little on the record for New Mills itself — no population count, no crime figures, no school or transport data logged against the name — which is often simply what happens with a small hamlet rather than a town: the numbers get rolled up into the wider Cornwall picture rather than tracked at this scale. What we do know is the frame it sits in. Cornwall as a whole has a median house price around £285,000, close to the national figure of £281,000 and a touch below the South West regional median of £305,000 — so this is a part of the country that isn't commanding a premium, even against its own region. Cornwall's crime rate, at 73.6 per 1,000, is the other fixed point available, though without New Mills' own figures there's no way to say whether this hamlet runs quieter or louder than that county-wide average. If you're weighing up a move here, the honest answer is that New Mills will need a visit rather than a spreadsheet. Hamlets like this tend to live or die on the specifics — the state of the lane, the nearest working school, how far you'd actually have to drive for a pint of milk — and none of that surfaces in the data available. What can be said is that you'd be settling into a corner of Cornwall that sits at or just below the national and regional norms on price, which suggests a place shaped more by rural quiet than by demand pressure. Anyone drawn to that trade-off — space and stillness over convenience and record — is the sort of person who tends to end up in a hamlet like this one.