Plain-An-Gwarry
Suburb · 103 residents
61Good
Good · better than 6 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
- Safety scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 48% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Plain-An-Gwarry
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Plain-An-Gwarry a good place to live?
Plain-An-Gwarry scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (70).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Plain-An-Gwarry in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Plain-An-Gwarry
Terraced streets and flats packed close together, the town centre a few minutes' walk in most directions — this is Redruth's old civic heart, and it reads as dense, workaday, and unmistakably urban for somewhere this small. The population here is tiny on paper, but the density figure tells you the real story: this is a compact pocket of flats and converted terraces rather than a spread-out suburb, and the streetscape backs that up.
The property picture and the money picture are the same story told twice. Terraced houses and flats dominate what sells here, mostly freehold, and the median price sits roughly a third below what you'd pay elsewhere in Cornwall — this is one of the more affordable corners of the county, which also means it sits in the lowest income and deprivation decile nationally. That combination — cheap to buy, low on the national income scale — is the single fact that shapes everything else about who ends up living here: it skews toward renters and first-rung buyers rather than second-steppers, and the median age in the mid-30s bears that out, younger than both the regional and national norm.
Green space and schooling are thin in the data here — Cardrew Court, an independent special school, is the one named entry — so it's hard to paint the weekend in specifics; what you can say is that this is a walk-everywhere kind of place, not a drive-to-the-retail-park one, and the transport and connectivity grades (both comfortably above the national average) back that up, with decent full-fibre coverage and a public transport network that punches above its weight for a place this size. That matters more here than a large garden would.