St Stephen
Village · 2,064 residents
69Good
Good · better than 8 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: 53 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 70, 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
- Property market scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is St Stephen a good place to live?
St Stephen scores 69/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (79) and transport (70).
It scores lowest on property market (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St Stephen in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St Stephen
St. Stephen sits in that stretch of mid-Cornwall where the china clay industry once shaped everything — the villages, the roads, the rhythm of work — and you can still read that history in the streets today: solid, unpretentious housing rather than anything built for the tourist trade, and a feel that's practical rather than picture-postcard.
Beyond that, this is a place I can't pretend to know the fine detail of. The council-level figures for Cornwall give a sense of the wider county — a median house price around £285,000, crime running at about 74 incidents per 1,000 people — but nothing here tells you specifically what St. Stephen's own streets, schools, or station options look like. No local school names, no rail stop, no crime breakdown particular to the village itself.
What I'd say honestly: Cornwall as a whole sits close to national norms on house prices, a touch below the South West regional average, and this corner of the county has never been part of the coastal premium that pushes prices up elsewhere in Cornwall. If you're weighing up St. Stephen specifically, it's worth getting the postcode-level detail — schools, transport, crime for the village itself — before deciding, because at county level the picture is really too broad to tell you whether this particular place would suit you.