Polstraul doesn't give up much if you go looking for hard numbers on the place itself — no crime figures, no school ratings, no transport counts have come through for this particular locality, so I won't pretend otherwise. What follows is really about where it sits in Cornwall, rather than a street-by-street tour. What we can say is that Cornwall as a whole runs a touch cheaper than the South West average and the national one: the region's median house price sits a little above the England-wide figure, and Cornwall's own benchmark price is closer to the national median than to the regional one. That matters if you're comparing Polstraul to somewhere like Truro or Falmouth — the county-wide starting point is more modest than the South West's reputation might suggest, closer to what you'd pay in an average English town than in the pricier corners of the region. Crime across Cornwall runs at a rate that, again, is the only real yardstick available here, and without a local figure to set against it, it's not something I can honestly narrow down to Polstraul itself. I'd rather be straight with you than fill in gaps with guesswork. If you're seriously weighing up a move, the sensible next step is to search on the exact postcode rather than the locality name alone — that's usually where the school names, the nearest station, the actual crime breakdown, and the green space on your doorstep all show up. Without them, the honest answer is that this piece can only tell you how Cornwall compares to the rest of England, not how Polstraul compares to Cornwall.