# Penryn

Town in Cornwall, South West.

Penryn is a town in Cornwall, South West. Median sale price £268,500 in 2025. Recorded crime 69.1 per 1,000 people. About 11,853 people.

Town. Code E63007051. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Cornwall](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £268,500** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Penryn was £268,500 in 2025. 524th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penryn#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 11,194** (2021). Penryn had 11,194 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 302nd least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penryn#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Penryn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penryn#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 63.8%** (January 2026). In Penryn, 63.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penryn#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63007051) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63007051) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 134 homes were sold in Penryn in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63007051) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Penryn.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63007051) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Penryn had 11,194 usual residents at the census.

## How Penryn compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Penryn | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £268,500 | 40th cheapest | 116 towns, South West · 2025 |
| Population | 11,194 | 33rd least populated | 116 towns, South West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 116 towns, South West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 63.8% | 6th lowest | 116 towns, South West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Penryn

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Cornwall 060A](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018834) | 1,997 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.9% |
| [Cornwall 060B](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018835) | 2,164 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 29.2% |
| [Cornwall 060C](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018836) | 1,761 | 175.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 69.0% |
| [Cornwall 060D](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018837) | 2,554 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 78.4% |
| [Cornwall 066C](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018899) | 2,936 | 25.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 56.5% |

## Your MP

- [Truro and Falmouth](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/truro-and-falmouth): Jayne Kirkham (Labour (Co-op)), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Cornwall](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall)

## Postcode districts covering Penryn

[TR10](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/tr10)

## Middle areas in Penryn

[Penryn](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/penryn)

## Towns near Penryn

[Falmouth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/falmouth), [Redruth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/redruth), [Truro](https://openindex.co.uk/town/truro), [Pool and Illogan](https://openindex.co.uk/town/pool-and-illogan), [Helston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/helston), [Camborne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/camborne)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63007051
- Constituency: [Truro and Falmouth †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/truro-and-falmouth)
- Council: [Cornwall †](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall)
- Region: [South West](https://openindex.co.uk/south-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.54 km²
- People, mid-2024: 11,853*
- Neighbourhoods: 5
- Output areas: 25

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Falmouth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/falmouth), [Redruth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/redruth), [Truro](https://openindex.co.uk/town/truro), [Pool and Illogan](https://openindex.co.uk/town/pool-and-illogan), [Helston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/helston), [Camborne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/camborne)

## Latest updates for Penryn

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63007051

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/penryn, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/penryn#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/penryn