Is St Columb Major, Cornwall a nice place to live?

Is St Columb Major a nice place to live or is St Columb Major rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that St Columb Major is on the up an up, it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is St Columb Major truly a nice place to live, or are Newquay, Padstow and Wadebridge a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in St Columb Major?

Using the latest Police street crime figures (typically from 3 months ago) we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around St Columb Major. Naturally the more urban and more central areas will have a higher rate of crime, but often you can be surprised when that is not the case and that is the area you want to move to.
Policing Area Voilent Crimes
Talskiddy 0
Retallack 0
Ruthvoes 0
Killaworgey 0
Black Cross 0
Indian Queens 0
Toldish 0
Fraddon 0
Cannalidgey 0
Colan 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for St Columb Major. These statistics are published by the government every 2-3 years. They are a measure of how likely you are to be a victim of personal or material crime in an area, such as muggings or burglary. We've taken the rank average for wards in and around St Columb Major and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.

You least likely to be a victim of crime in the St Columb Major ward.

Ward Average rank in England
St Columb Major (Best) 30274/32845
St Enoder 30118/32845
Lanivet and Blisland 28621/32845
St Dennis and Nanpean 27639/32845
Ladock, St Clement and St Erme 27020/32845
Roche 26379/32845
Newquay Treloggan 25324/32845
St Mawgan and Colan 24938/32845
Newquay Treviglas 23747/32845
Newquay Tretherras (Worst) 19695/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Your Health in St Columb Major

If you are thinking of moving to St Columb Major, you want to know if the place is likely to put you on a downward spiral of ill health. We've taken the healh question from the latest census to find out and how St Columb Major compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;

Town Very Bad Bad
Cornwall (St Columb Major) 1.43% 4.87%
Plymouth 1.44% 5.08%
South Hams 1.11% 3.8%
West Devon 1.18% 3.96%

The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for St Columb Major. They measures the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health, lovely! We've collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around St Columb Major. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
St Mawgan and Colan (Best) 20904/32845
Lanivet and Blisland 19762/32845
Ladock, St Clement and St Erme 19253/32845
St Columb Major 18525/32845
Newquay Treloggan 16704/32845
St Enoder 15316/32845
Newquay Treviglas 13989/32845
Newquay Tretherras 12697/32845
Roche 12523/32845
St Dennis and Nanpean (Worst) 12205/32845

Deprivation in St Columb Major

Using the English Indices of Deprivation statistics, we've collated the average Index of Multiple Deprivation rank of all the LSOAs in the wards in and around St Columb Major. In layman's terms, this is how rough the ward is based on mutiple measures of deprivation including; employment, income, health, crime, housing and outside space.

Ward Average rank in England
Newquay Treloggan (Best) 16120/32845
St Mawgan and Colan 16031/32845
Newquay Tretherras 15097/32845
Newquay Treviglas 13471/32845
St Columb Major 13466/32845
St Enoder 12109/32845
Lanivet and Blisland 11520/32845
Ladock, St Clement and St Erme 11410/32845
Roche 8572/32845
St Dennis and Nanpean (Worst) 8346/32845

Average rent in St Columb Major

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for St Columb Major are dated September 2021. They are split into three figures, the lower quartile, mean and upper quartile. If you recieve housing benefit or the housing benefit section of Universal Credit, the lower quartile is at the top limit of what would be affordable. The mean is the average you'd expect to pay for a rental property and the upper quartile is the average rental cost of the most expensive 25% of properties in St Columb Major.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in St Columb Major

If you are thinking of moving to St Columb Major, you'll want to know how much you can earn in a job in the town. The government publish regular statistics on gross weekly pay and pay per hour.

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