Pool and Illogan
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Pool and Illogan is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Pool and Illogan 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 Pool and Illogan live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Pool and Illogan compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Pool and Illogan safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Pool and Illogan at a rate of 101.1 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, 76 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Pool and Illogan.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (391), anti-social behaviour (146) and other crime (144).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Pool and Illogan was 115.5 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 Pool and Illogan, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Pool and Illogan has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Pool and Illogan
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 045A | 1,265 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 48.3% |
| Cornwall 045E | 1,328 | 76.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 25.7% |
| Cornwall 051C | 1,417 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 60.8% |
| Cornwall 051D | 2,385 | 177.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 38.8% |
| Cornwall 051E | 1,284 | 111.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 61.6% |
Your MP
- Perran MoonLabourMP for Camborne and Redruth
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 Pool and Illogan2
Middle areas in Pool and Illogan1
Towns near Pool and Illogan6
Pool and Illogan in brief
Pool and Illogan is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 8,881 people lived in Pool and Illogan in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £273,500 in 2025 across 104 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 101.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Pool and Illogan was £273,500 in 2025.
Pool and Illogan had 8,588 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Pool and Illogan live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Pool and Illogan, 47.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.