Saltash
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Saltash is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Saltash 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 Saltash live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Saltash compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Saltash safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Saltash at a rate of 64.3 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, 84 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Saltash.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (410), other crime (164) and anti-social behaviour (127).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Saltash was 70.4 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 Saltash, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Saltash has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Saltash
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 022B | 1,523 | 144.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 82.7% |
| Cornwall 022C | 1,218 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 73.0% |
| Cornwall 022D | 1,173 | 18.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.0% |
| Cornwall 025A | 1,246 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.2% |
| Cornwall 025B | 1,416 | 56.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.1% |
| Cornwall 025C | 1,203 | 90.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.1% |
| Cornwall 025D | 1,416 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.8% |
| Cornwall 026A | 1,403 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| Cornwall 026B | 1,278 | 48.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.6% |
| Cornwall 026C | 2,719 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.4% |
| Cornwall 026D | 1,690 | 155.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.5% |
Your MP
- Anna GelderdLabourMP for South East Cornwall
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 Saltash1
Middle areas in Saltash3
Towns near Saltash5
Saltash in brief
Saltash is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 15,532 people lived in Saltash in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £257,250 in 2025 across 222 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Saltash was £257,250 in 2025.
Saltash had 15,433 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Saltash live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Saltash, 91.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.