Sandoes Gate doesn't give up much if you go looking for it, which is itself a kind of character reference — this is a small corner of Cornwall that hasn't been mapped, ranked and written up to death, and the absence of noise tells you something about the pace of the place. What we can say with any confidence comes from sitting it against Cornwall as a whole. The county's median house price sits close to the national figure, and Cornwall's crime rate runs at a level that gives a useful backdrop rather than a warning sign — without a figure specific to Sandoes Gate itself, the honest comparison stops there. The wider South West carries an older median age than the England-wide number and a housing market where detached homes command a real premium over terraces, which is the general texture of Cornish life: more space, older neighbours, a slower churn of people moving in and out. I'd rather tell you plainly that the detail isn't there than dress up a guess as local knowledge. If you're weighing up Sandoes Gate specifically, the county-level picture — steady prices near the national average, a population that skews older than the rest of England, a market where owning outright and having room to breathe matters more than density — is the honest starting point, but it's Cornwall's picture, not necessarily this one street's.