# Penzance Town in Cornwall, South West. Penzance is a town in Cornwall, South West. Median sale price £260,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 125.8 per 1,000 people. About 14,885 people. Town. Code E63007065. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Cornwall](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall) 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £260,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Penzance was £260,000 in 2025. Joint 512th cheapest 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/penzance#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 14,957** (2021). Penzance had 14,957 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 508th 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/penzance#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Penzance 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/penzance#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 85.5%** (January 2026). In Penzance, 85.5% 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/penzance#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63007065) (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. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63007065) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 234 homes were sold in Penzance in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63007065) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Penzance. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63007065) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Penzance had 14,957 usual residents at the census. ## How Penzance compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Penzance | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £260,000 | joint 22nd cheapest | 116 towns, South West · 2025 | | Population | 14,957 | 58th 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 | 85.5% | joint 38th lowest | 116 towns, South West · Jan 2026 | ## 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 Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in Penzance | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Cornwall 067A](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018976) | 2,088 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 57.4% | | [Cornwall 067B](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018977) | 1,317 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 80.3% | | [Cornwall 067C](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018994) | 1,950 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.7% | | [Cornwall 067D](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018996) | 1,503 | 155.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 61.9% | | [Cornwall 067E](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018997) | 1,501 | 109.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.4% | | [Cornwall 068A](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018995) | 2,084 | 189.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.6% | | [Cornwall 068B](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018998) | 1,370 | 38.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.5% | | [Cornwall 068C](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01018999) | 1,594 | 354.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.0% | | [Cornwall 068D](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01019001) | 1,511 | 99.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.4% | | [Cornwall 070A](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/neighbourhood/e01019000) | 1,440 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 80.4% | ## Your MP - [St Ives](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/st-ives): Andrew George (Liberal Democrat), 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 Penzance [TR18](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/tr18) ## Middle areas in Penzance [Penzance North](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/penzance-north), [Penzance Quay](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall/penzance-quay) ## Towns near Penzance [Hayle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hayle), [Helston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/helston), [Camborne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/camborne), [Pool and Illogan](https://openindex.co.uk/town/pool-and-illogan), [Redruth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/redruth), [Penryn](https://openindex.co.uk/town/penryn) ## 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. ## About - Type: Town - Code: E63007065 - Constituency: [St Ives †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/st-ives) - Council: [Cornwall †](https://openindex.co.uk/cornwall) - Region: [South West](https://openindex.co.uk/south-west) - Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england) - Area: 3.41 km² - People, mid-2024: 14,885* - Neighbourhoods: 10 - Output areas: 57 * 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 [Hayle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hayle), [Helston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/helston), [Camborne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/camborne), [Pool and Illogan](https://openindex.co.uk/town/pool-and-illogan), [Redruth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/redruth), [Penryn](https://openindex.co.uk/town/penryn) ## Latest updates for Penzance - 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/E63007065 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/penzance, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/penzance#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/). 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