Polgooth

17°COvercast

• Today: 20° / 17° · 49% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 17° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:49Sunset 19:42

12h 53m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Saltash Callington Road, United Kingdom

3 reported · July 2026▼ 67% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour1
• Public order1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Grampound & Mevagissey · Devon And Cornwall

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

941 reported road collisions (2024)

211 killed or seriously injured · 1,236 casualties · 16.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

97 food businesses within 2 miles

• 85 rated 4–5 ★ (73 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: St Austell (2.8 km)
• 14 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£277,801 average▲ 3.7% YoY

Across Cornwall · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,004 average monthly rent▲ 3.3% YoY

• 1 bed £691
• 2 bed £884
• 3 bed £1,081

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

8.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.6 times median annual pay (8.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 168.7p · Asda (3.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.7p · Asda (3.3 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

17 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Priory Road Car Park (3.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches12
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

570,308 residents in Cornwall · 161/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 83 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

5% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,591 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (25% of 287,200)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

298 schools · 73,481 pupils

235 primary · 31 secondary · 32 other

Ofsted: 95 of 120 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

279inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Cornwall

555 CQC-registered services

• Care homes199
• GP practices76
• Dentists107
• Homecare agencies118
• Hospitals & hospices25

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cornwall

• Not in the Green Belt
• 27 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

1,111 applications decided

92.3% granted · 1,025 granted, 86 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Noah Law

Labour

St Austell and Newquay

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 4
• Con 7
• LD 26
• Grn 3
• Ref 20
• Oth 27

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• Parks & greens2
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

29,715 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£679 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,630 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

37% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 316,885 certificates

12.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

27% low-carbon electricity

Gas 73% · Wind 27%

287 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.8 yrs women · 80.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 60 women · 60.2 men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in St Austell and Newquay:

• Add a tick box for "Cornish" in the 2031 census for national identity question 543 local signatures · 4,868 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership465 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases426 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s407 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office393 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Polgooth · 0.1 km

  Polgooth is a former mining village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies mainly in the parish of St Mewan and partly in the parish of St Ewe. The nearest town is St Austell two miles (3.5 km) to the nor…

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  Trelowth · 0.7 km

  Trelowth is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies 2.3 miles (3.7 km) by road southwest of central St Austell, and is situated immediately to the northwest of Polgooth. The hamlet is part of the parish…

• St Mewan · 1.1 km

  St Mewan is a civil parish and village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) west of St Austell. It is a small settlement, comprising the parish church, rectory, a sc…

• Trewhiddle · 1.3 km

  Trewhiddle is a small settlement in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies in the civil parish of Pentewan Valley and the ecclesiastical parish of St Austell. The nearest town is St Austell, approximately on…

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  London Apprentice · 1.3 km

  London Apprentice is a village in south Cornwall, England, UK, on the banks of St Austell River in the Pentewan Valley approximately two miles (3 km) south of St Austell.

• Levalsa Meor · 1.5 km

  Levalsa Meor is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK. It is half a mile south of London Apprentice and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south-west from St Austell. It is in the civil parish of Pentewan Valley.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)