Camborne
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Camborne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Camborne 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 Camborne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Camborne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Camborne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Camborne at a rate of 101.2 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, 200 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Camborne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,012), other crime (311) and anti-social behaviour (287).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Camborne was 113.3 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 Camborne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Camborne has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Camborne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 052A | 2,292 | 125.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.8% |
| Cornwall 052B | 2,208 | 37.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.3% |
| Cornwall 052D | 1,936 | 152.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.7% |
| Cornwall 052E | 1,667 | 76.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.8% |
| Cornwall 052F | 1,422 | 83.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Cornwall 053A | 1,307 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.5% |
| Cornwall 053B | 1,322 | 105.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 77.6% |
| Cornwall 053D | 1,579 | 104.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 59.6% |
| Cornwall 053E | 1,674 | 248.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.2% |
| Cornwall 055A | 1,782 | 91.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 74.8% |
| Cornwall 055B | 1,321 | 84.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.8% |
| Cornwall 055C | 1,687 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.6% |
| Cornwall 055E | 1,219 | 36.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 68.7% |
Your MP
- Perran MoonLabourMP for Camborne and Redruth
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 Camborne1
Middle areas in Camborne3
Towns near Camborne6
Camborne in brief
Camborne is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 21,060 people lived in Camborne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £215,000 in 2025 across 278 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 101.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Camborne was £215,000 in 2025.
Camborne had 20,445 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Camborne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Camborne, 84.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.