Bodmin
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Bodmin is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bodmin add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Bodmin live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bodmin compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bodmin safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bodmin at a rate of 119.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 172 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bodmin.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,074), other crime (316) and anti-social behaviour (254).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bodmin was 116.1 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Bodmin, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bodmin has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bodmin
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 014A | 1,666 | 140.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 65.8% |
| Cornwall 014B | 1,932 | 178.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 59.4% |
| Cornwall 014C | 2,661 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.6% |
| Cornwall 014D | 2,662 | 84.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.9% |
| Cornwall 015A | 1,740 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 61.5% |
| Cornwall 015B | 1,672 | 179.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 41.5% |
| Cornwall 015C | 1,895 | 143.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.2% |
| Cornwall 015D | 1,584 | 168.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 65.5% |
| Cornwall 015E | 1,096 | 31.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 44.5% |
Your MP
- Ben MaguireLiberal DemocratMP for North Cornwall
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Bodmin1
Middle areas in Bodmin2
Towns near Bodmin5
Bodmin in brief
Bodmin is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 17,575 people lived in Bodmin in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £237,500 in 2025 across 247 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 119.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bodmin was £237,500 in 2025.
Bodmin had 16,904 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Bodmin live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bodmin, 73.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.