St Columb Major
Town · 3,711 residents
57Good
Good · better than 2 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 78 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Infrastructure scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around St Columb Major
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is St Columb Major a good place to live?
St Columb Major scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (71).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St Columb Major in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St Columb Major
St Columb Major has the look of a working Cornish market town rather than a postcard village — a granite high street, terraces and semis pressed close together, the kind of place built around actual daily business rather than passing tourist trade. Detached houses sit around the edges, but what you notice walking through is density: this is a compact, lived-in settlement, not a scattering of cottages.
The numbers back that impression up. Income here sits at the very bottom decile nationally, and the wider deprivation picture (decile 3) puts St Columb Major among the less well-off parts of the country, though house prices haven't followed that down as far as you'd expect — a median of around £210,000 is about 7% cheaper than the Cornwall average and well under the national figure. That gap between low incomes and only moderately cheap housing is worth sitting with; it's not a place where wages comfortably chase the cost of living. On the ground, that translates into a property market dominated by freehold detached and semi-detached houses — a For Sale board here is overwhelmingly likely to mean an older family house you own outright, not a leasehold flat. St Columb Major Academy, the primary school, carries a Good rating rather than Outstanding, and with only one school in the immediate area, families are somewhat dependent on it or on travelling further afield. The transport grade is the outlier worth noting — an A, backed by two dozen local stops — which suggests decent bus connectivity even without a rail station on the doorstep.