St Day
Village · 1,736 residents
55Good
Good · better than 2 in 10 villages
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: 50 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 72, well above the typical 60
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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 Day
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is St Day a good place to live?
St Day scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80) and transport (72).
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 Day in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St Day
St Day is granite terraces and stone chapels, the kind of Cornish mining village where the streets were laid out for people, not cars, and the pace shows it. There's no retail strip to speak of, no chain coffee sitting on the corner — this is a place people live in rather than pass through, and the median age of 49 tells you it's settled rather than transient. You won't find a bustling centre here; you'll find a tight, close-set community where everyone's business is roughly everyone else's.
If you're weighing up the practicalities, the picture is mixed in an interesting way. There's a single school in the village itself — St Day and Carharrack Community School, rated Good, with just over a hundred pupils — and Cusgarne Primary a little further out. Transport is a genuine strength: 24 stops serve a village of under 600 people, which for a rural Cornish spot is unusually well provided, though this isn't a place with its own station, so any rail commute means travelling to catch a train elsewhere. Housing here is dominated by detached and semi-detached homes sold freehold — a For Sale board on one of these streets is overwhelmingly likely to be a family house you own outright, not a leasehold flat — and at a median of around £282,500, prices sit almost exactly level with the wider Cornwall figure, just under it in fact, which is notable given the county isn't cheap by national standards.
Green space is where the numbers undersell the feel: nearly six hectares spread across eight separate plots for a population this size gives you more breathing room per head than the regional average, even if none of the individual spaces are large. It's a walk-the-dog, potter-about-the-garden sort of village rather than one built around destination parks or a restaurant scene — there's no notable food venue in the data here, and that absence is itself the point: eating out means driving somewhere else. Healthcare and general wellbeing score strongly against the national picture, and that pairs with what is, on paper, a genuinely safe place to live day to day.