St Austell

20°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 20° / 14° · 21% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 17° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:48Sunset 19:41

12h 53m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Saltash Callington Road, United Kingdom

212 reported · July 2026▲ 16% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences107
• Anti-social behaviour38
• Criminal damage & arson19
• Public order13

19 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: St Austell Town · 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)

205 food businesses within 2 miles

• 183 rated 4–5 ★ (155 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: St Austell (1.1 km)
• 83 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 (1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.7p · Asda (1 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

16 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Hawkins Motors-St Austell-Hyundai (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms3
• Swimming pools3
• Sports pitches29
• Playgrounds26

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
• 100 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)

• Schools8
• GPs & clinics6
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens71
• Restaurants & cafés28

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

29,715 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

397 jobs advertised · £34,968 avg

e.g. Market Research Field Interviewer Car Required Part-time, Traffic Management Operative, Fault Co-Ordinator

Source: Adzuna

£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

81% low-carbon electricity

Solar 56% · Wind 22% · Gas 14% · Imports 6%

59 gCO₂/kWh · low 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

• Bethel, Cornwall · 0.6 km

  Bethel is a suburb on the east side of St Austell in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Bethel is included within the St Austell Bethel division of Cornwall Council. It is located at OS Grid Ref SX032529

• Penrice Academy · 0.6 km

  Penrice Academy is a secondary academy school and former specialist Language College in St Austell, Cornwall, England. The school has an enrollment of 1,428. It is run by the Cornwall Education Learning Trust.

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  A.F.C. St Austell · 0.8 km

  Association Football Club St Austell is a football club based in St Austell, Cornwall. They play in the South West Peninsula League Premier Division West.

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  Poltair School · 0.8 km

  Poltair School is a coeducational secondary school located on the site of the former St Austell Grammar School in St Austell, Cornwall, England. It is run by the Cornwall Education Learning Trust.

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  Cornwall College, England · 0.8 km

  Cornwall College, also known as The Cornwall College Group (TCCG), is a further education college situated on eight sites throughout Cornwall and Devon, England, United Kingdom, with its headquarters in St Austell.

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  Holmbush, Cornwall · 0.9 km

  Holmbush is a village in Cornwall, England that is situated in the suburban area of St Austell. It was a centre for tin and copper mining in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a few houses to the south of t…

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