Pelynt

Detached stone and render houses line the roads around Pelynt, with the odd terrace and semi breaking up the pattern — this is a village built for families who bought space rather than proximity, and the property mix bears that out plainly.

There's no rail station listed for Pelynt, and the school offer is a single set-up: Pelynt Primary Academy, rated Good, with 87 pupils on the roll. That's the whole picture for families here — no secondary on the doorstep, no train line to lean on for a commute. The median age of just under 59 tells you who this actually suits day to day: this is a place where people have settled, not a place people commute out of each morning. If you need rail access or a big school choice, you'll be driving to find it.

Weekends here run on modest green space — three plots totalling under half a hectare, which is thin even by village standards — so life leans on the wider Cornish countryside rather than a formal park. The grades tell a consistent story: transport scores an A despite the absence of rail, which speaks to bus stops and road links rather than trains; nightlife also scores an A, an odd note for a village of this size and one worth taking as a sign of a good local pub or two rather than any late-night scene. Health provision comes in strong at B+. The one grade that breaks the pattern is housing, at C+, sitting below the B-range everything else clusters in — worth sitting with if space and long-term value matter to you.

On crime, the raw number for the past year is a single figure, but the category breakdown (violence and sexual offences making up over 60% of recorded incidents) reflects how small numbers behave in a village of this size — one or two incidents can dominate the percentages. The comparison to Cornwall as a whole is dramatic in percentage terms, but with a population of 28 in this dataset, that swing is a function of scale, not a genuine safety signal; the safety grade of B+ is the steadier read.