Penryn
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Penryn is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Penryn 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 Penryn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Penryn compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Penryn safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Penryn at a rate of 69.1 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, 63 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Penryn.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (323), other crime (175) and shoplifting (122).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Penryn was 61.4 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 Penryn, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Penryn has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Penryn
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 060A | 1,997 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.9% |
| Cornwall 060B | 2,164 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 29.2% |
| Cornwall 060C | 1,761 | 175.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 69.0% |
| Cornwall 060D | 2,554 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 78.4% |
| Cornwall 066C | 2,936 | 25.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 56.5% |
Your MP
- Jayne KirkhamLabour (Co-op)MP for Truro and Falmouth
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 Penryn1
Middle areas in Penryn1
Towns near Penryn6
Penryn in brief
Penryn is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 11,853 people lived in Penryn in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £268,500 in 2025 across 134 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Penryn was £268,500 in 2025.
Penryn had 11,194 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Penryn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Penryn, 63.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.