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Falmouth

Town

Town in Cornwall, South West.

Falmouth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Falmouth 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 100% of people in Falmouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£330,000
Joint 330th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
24,066
457th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
100%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
79.2%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Falmouth compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

FalmouthMiddle
Median sale price116 towns, South West · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South West116 areas from £195,000 to £448,750. The middle area is £286,875. Falmouth is £330,000.
£330,000joint 28th most expensive
Population116 towns, South West · 2021
Population: every town in South West116 areas from 7,704 to 425,196. The middle area is 14,963. Falmouth is 24,066.
24,06632nd most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares116 towns, South West · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South West116 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 97.5%. Falmouth is 100.0%.
100%joint most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage116 towns, South West · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South West116 areas from 28.0% to 99.0%. The middle area is 89.3%. Falmouth is 79.2%.
79.2%joint 22nd lowest

Is Falmouth safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Falmouth at a rate of 81.5 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, 167 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Falmouth.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (737), other crime (290) and shoplifting (288).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Falmouth was 83.5 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 Falmouth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Falmouth has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Falmouth

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Cornwall 062A1,61589.6 per 1,000397.1%
Cornwall 062B1,174241.8 per 1,000790.2%
Cornwall 062C1,90475.2 per 1,000689.5%
Cornwall 062D1,71265.7 per 1,000293.7%
Cornwall 062E1,884104.0 per 1,000258.3%
Cornwall 063A1,945163.4 per 1,000986.7%
Cornwall 063B1,953136.0 per 1,000779.5%
Cornwall 063C1,53749.8 per 1,000990.1%
Cornwall 063D1,62951.3 per 1,000881.9%
Cornwall 064A1,63143.4 per 1,000965.2%
Cornwall 064B1,78031.3 per 1,000691.5%
Cornwall 064C1,64825.7 per 1,000881.4%
Cornwall 064D1,51357.4 per 1,000835.5%
Cornwall 064E1,77542.4 per 1,000979.5%

Your MP

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 Falmouth1

Middle areas in Falmouth3

Towns near Falmouth6

Falmouth in brief

Falmouth is a town in Cornwall, South West.

About 24,289 people lived in Falmouth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £330,000 in 2025 across 359 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 81.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Falmouth was £330,000 in 2025.

Falmouth had 24,066 usual residents at the census.

About 100% of people in Falmouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Falmouth, 79.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.