Redruth
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Redruth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Redruth 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 Redruth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Redruth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Redruth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Redruth at a rate of 94.3 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, 144 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Redruth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (721), other crime (278) and anti-social behaviour (193).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Redruth was 85.8 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 Redruth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Redruth has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Redruth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 046B | 1,689 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.6% |
| Cornwall 046C | 2,077 | 143.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.1% |
| Cornwall 046D | 1,754 | 171.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.1% |
| Cornwall 049A | 1,965 | 51.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.6% |
| Cornwall 049B | 1,905 | 146.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Cornwall 049C | 2,181 | 51.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 67.3% |
| Cornwall 049D | 2,209 | 37.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Cornwall 051B | 1,965 | 142.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 55.9% |
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 Redruth1
Middle areas in Redruth2
Towns near Redruth6
Redruth in brief
Redruth is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 16,010 people lived in Redruth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £235,000 in 2025 across 243 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 94.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Redruth was £235,000 in 2025.
Redruth had 15,455 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Redruth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Redruth, 87.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.