St Stephen

17°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 18° / 15° · 47% rain
• Tomorrow: 19° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:47Sunset 19:44

12h 57m 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

12 reported · July 2026▼ 37% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences9
• Drugs1
• Possession of weapons1
• Vehicle crime1

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: St Stephen & St Dennis · 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)

25 food businesses within 2 miles

• 23 rated 4–5 ★ (18 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: St. Columb Road (7.0 km)
• 18 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: 166.7p · Asda (8.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.7p · Asda (8.5 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

8 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 175 kW
• Nearest: Hawkins Motors, St. Stephen (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches6
• Playgrounds3

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
• 37 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)

• Schools2
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

29,715 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

7 jobs advertised · £32,146 avg

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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

59% low-carbon electricity

Solar 54% · Gas 37% · Imports 4% · Wind 3%

148 gCO₂/kWh · moderate 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

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  St Stephen-in-Brannel · 0.1 km

  St Stephen-in-Brannel is a civil parish and village in mid Cornwall, England. The village is four miles (6.5 km) west of St Austell on the southern edge of Cornwall's china clay district. The parish also contains the…

• Brannel School · 0.6 km

  Brannel School is a co-educational English-language secondary school located in St Stephen-in-Brannel, in Cornwall, England, UK. There are around 750 children aged 11–16 on roll.

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  South Terras mine · 1.3 km

  South Terras Mine is a disused uranium and radium mine near Grampound Road and St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall. Prior to producing primarily radioactive ores, it also produced tin, iron, and ochre. In 1996, it was des…

• Roseland Observatory · 1.4 km

  Roseland Observatory is located in Court Farm, one mile (1.6 km) southeast of St Stephen-in-Brannel, in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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  Goonabarn · 2.0 km

  Goonabarn is a hamlet in the parish of St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England.

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  Coombe, St Stephen-in-Brannel · 2.1 km

  Coombe is a village in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)