Penzance
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Penzance is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Penzance 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 Penzance live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Penzance compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Penzance safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Penzance at a rate of 125.8 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, 163 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Penzance.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (735), anti-social behaviour (343) and other crime (297).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Penzance was 140.3 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 Penzance, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Penzance has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Penzance
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 067A | 2,088 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 57.4% |
| Cornwall 067B | 1,317 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 80.3% |
| Cornwall 067C | 1,950 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.7% |
| Cornwall 067D | 1,503 | 155.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 61.9% |
| Cornwall 067E | 1,501 | 109.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.4% |
| Cornwall 068A | 2,084 | 189.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.6% |
| Cornwall 068B | 1,370 | 38.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.5% |
| Cornwall 068C | 1,594 | 354.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.0% |
| Cornwall 068D | 1,511 | 99.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.4% |
| Cornwall 070A | 1,440 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 80.4% |
Your MP
- Andrew GeorgeLiberal DemocratMP for St Ives
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 Penzance1
Middle areas in Penzance2
Towns near Penzance6
Penzance in brief
Penzance is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 14,885 people lived in Penzance in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,000 in 2025 across 234 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 125.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Penzance was £260,000 in 2025.
Penzance had 14,957 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Penzance live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Penzance, 85.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.