St Austell

10°CClear

• Today: 12° / 8° · 8% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:13Sunset 16:52

9h 39m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Saltash Callington Road, United Kingdom

• 5.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 3.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

183 reported · August 2026▼ 5% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences76
• Anti-social behaviour35
• Public order22
• Criminal damage & arson15

17 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: St Austell Town · Devon And Cornwall

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

920 reported road collisions (2025)

188 killed or seriously injured · 1,194 casualties · 16.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

205 food businesses within 2 miles

• 180 rated 4–5 ★ (152 top)
• 3 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

£274,570 average▼ 2.9% YoY

Across Cornwall · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,000 average monthly rent▲ 1.8% YoY

• 1 bed £688
• 2 bed £880
• 3 bed £1,077

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

7,757 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 173.7p · Asda (1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 198.7p · 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK26,278
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK20,229
• Net moves+6,049

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 86 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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 · 73,277 pupils

234 primary · 31 secondary · 33 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Cornwall

559 CQC-registered services

• Care homes199
• GP practices76
• Dentists108
• Homecare agencies120
• 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)

1,159 applications decided

94.7% granted · 1,098 granted, 61 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

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)

29,950 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

254 jobs advertised · £34,496 avg

e.g. Assistant Hotel Manager, Day Care Host, Field Sales Representative

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

3% low-carbon electricity

Gas 97% · Wind 3%

383 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

2 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in PL25

• Kccg-Menopause Service
• St Austell Health Group

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

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

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases427 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death319 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND298 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks285 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately192 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• 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 an English-language further education college situated on eight sites throughout Cornwall and Devon, England, United Kingdom, with its headquarters…

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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…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)