Liskeard
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Liskeard is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Liskeard 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 Liskeard live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Liskeard compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Liskeard safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Liskeard at a rate of 114.2 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, 138 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Liskeard.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (622), other crime (249) and anti-social behaviour (156).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Liskeard was 115.2 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 Liskeard, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Liskeard has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Liskeard
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 016B | 2,094 | 80.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.3% |
| Cornwall 016E | 1,467 | 79.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.7% |
| Cornwall 016F | 1,399 | 84.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.9% |
| Cornwall 017A | 1,474 | 160.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.2% |
| Cornwall 017B | 1,310 | 73.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.9% |
| Cornwall 017C | 1,319 | 304.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 81.6% |
| Cornwall 017D | 1,838 | 58.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.6% |
Your MP
- Anna GelderdLabourMP for South East 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 Liskeard1
Middle areas in Liskeard1
Towns near Liskeard6
Liskeard in brief
Liskeard is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 11,703 people lived in Liskeard in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 187 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 114.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Liskeard was £220,000 in 2025.
Liskeard had 10,901 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Liskeard live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Liskeard, 88.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.