St Austell
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
St Austell is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for St Austell 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 St Austell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How St Austell compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is St Austell safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in St Austell at a rate of 105.6 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, 233 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in St Austell.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,124), other crime (435) and anti-social behaviour (409).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in St Austell was 104.8 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 St Austell, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so St Austell has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in St Austell
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 036A | 2,087 | 86.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 72.8% |
| Cornwall 036B | 1,509 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 68.0% |
| Cornwall 036C | 1,357 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 60.1% |
| Cornwall 036D | 1,848 | 18.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 70.9% |
| Cornwall 038A | 1,450 | 53.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 42.1% |
| Cornwall 038B | 1,574 | 116.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 64.7% |
| Cornwall 038C | 2,707 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.7% |
| Cornwall 038D | 1,529 | 298.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 75.4% |
| Cornwall 039A | 1,601 | 265.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 61.9% |
| Cornwall 039B | 1,895 | 142.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 79.1% |
| Cornwall 039C | 1,743 | 68.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 80.2% |
| Cornwall 039D | 1,977 | 152.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 80.4% |
| Cornwall 039E | 1,490 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 61.9% |
| Cornwall 039F | 1,334 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 75.9% |
Your MP
- Noah LawLabourMP for St Austell and Newquay
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 St Austell1
Middle areas in St Austell3
Towns near St Austell6
St Austell in brief
St Austell is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 24,596 people lived in St Austell 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 319 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 105.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in St Austell was £235,000 in 2025.
St Austell had 24,361 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in St Austell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In St Austell, 72.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.