Detached and semi-detached houses dominate the streets here, nearly all of them owned outright rather than rented, which tells you something before you even read a sale board: this is a settled, older Cornish suburb, not a place people pass through. A median age north of fifty backs that up — you're more likely to find long-term residents than young families chasing a starter home. On paper the housing looks like a bargain next to the rest of the country: a median price sitting well below the national figure, and about 13% cheaper than the Cornwall average too. But look closer at the type breakdown and the picture is odd rather than simply cheap — detached houses here sell for roughly £266,500 against a national detached average of £420,000, while semi-detached homes actually go for slightly more than the national semi price. That gap suggests a place where the bigger homes are within reach in a way they aren't elsewhere in the country, but where the more modest stock hasn't followed the same discount. Schooling is thin on the ground in the data available — Treloweth Community Primary, an academy, is the one named option, without an Ofsted rating to go on, so anyone with school-age children will want to look at that in person rather than take the area's word for it. The grade pattern is where Tolskithy gets interesting, and a little uneven. Nightlife and transport both come back graded well above the national average, which is a genuine surprise for a suburb this size and this quiet-looking on the housing front — something is going on locally, whether that's a well-served bus or rail link or simply pubs and venues punching above their weight. Health and housing grades sit comfortably above average too. Connectivity, by contrast, lags — a C against a run of Bs and an A — and with full fibre reaching only around 61% of premises, anyone working from home should check the actual broadband options on their street before assuming it'll be fine. Crime is the number that needs unpacking rather than repeating. The total recorded incidents over the year is modest in absolute terms, but the rate compares so far above the Cornwall benchmark that it's the clear outlier against an otherwise decent grade profile — safety still comes back as a B+, so this reads as a small population producing a headline percentage that looks worse than the lived experience likely is. Violence and sexual offences make up close to half of all recorded crime, with theft and criminal damage some way behind; worth understanding the local context (a nightlife strip, a transport hub) rather than reading it as a suburb to avoid on sight. Put together, this is a place that suits someone who wants space, an established freehold house, and a slower pace of life, and who isn't leaning on the local school system or fibre broadband to make the decision for them. The trade-off is a crime rate that looks alarming against its neighbours until you weigh it against the small population it's drawn from, and a broadband picture that hasn't caught up with the rest of the profile. Worth a visit before a decision, as ever — but the bones here are more solid than the headline crime figure alone would suggest.