Hayle
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Hayle is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hayle 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 Hayle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hayle compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hayle safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hayle at a rate of 89.2 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, 64 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hayle.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (366), other crime (128) and criminal damage and arson (116).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hayle was 91.0 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 Hayle, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hayle has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hayle
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 057B | 2,059 | 107.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.0% |
| Cornwall 057C | 2,052 | 107.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 77.7% |
| Cornwall 057D | 1,537 | 77.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.8% |
| Cornwall 057F | 1,462 | 58.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Cornwall 057G | 1,654 | 76.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.9% |
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 Hayle1
Middle areas in Hayle1
Towns near Hayle6
Hayle in brief
Hayle is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 9,426 people lived in Hayle in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £280,000 in 2025 across 126 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 89.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hayle was £280,000 in 2025.
Hayle had 9,040 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Hayle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hayle, 87.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.