New Mills is one of those places that barely announces itself — a scatter of houses in Cornwall you'd pass through rather than aim for, with no high street to speak of and nothing pretending otherwise. That absence is itself the character: this is a hamlet in the true sense, not a marketing term for a village with a coffee shop. I'll be straight with you: there's very little hard data specific to New Mills itself, which is fairly typical for a settlement this small — it doesn't generate its own crime figures, school catchments, or transport counts because it's too small a unit to register separately from the wider Cornwall picture. What I can tell you is the frame it sits in. Cornwall's own median house price runs close to the national figure, and the wider South West region tends to skew a little older and a little pricier than the England-wide averages on things like house prices and qualifications. If New Mills follows that regional pattern, as most small Cornish hamlets do, you're looking at an area shaped more by its surrounding countryside and nearest market town than by any amenities of its own. Given how thin the picture is at the hamlet level, the honest answer is that a decision to live in New Mills rests less on statistics and more on what you find when you actually visit — the state of the lane, the nearest working village, the mobile signal, the school run to wherever the closest catchment happens to be. That's not a data gap to apologise for; it's simply what living somewhere this small means.