Falmouth
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Falmouth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Falmouth 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Falmouth, 79.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Falmouth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Falmouth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Falmouth at a rate of 81.5 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, 167 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Falmouth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (737), other crime (290) and shoplifting (288).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Falmouth was 83.5 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 Falmouth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Falmouth has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Falmouth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 062A | 1,615 | 89.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.1% |
| Cornwall 062B | 1,174 | 241.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.2% |
| Cornwall 062C | 1,904 | 75.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.5% |
| Cornwall 062D | 1,712 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.7% |
| Cornwall 062E | 1,884 | 104.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 58.3% |
| Cornwall 063A | 1,945 | 163.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.7% |
| Cornwall 063B | 1,953 | 136.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 79.5% |
| Cornwall 063C | 1,537 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.1% |
| Cornwall 063D | 1,629 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.9% |
| Cornwall 064A | 1,631 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 65.2% |
| Cornwall 064B | 1,780 | 31.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.5% |
| Cornwall 064C | 1,648 | 25.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.4% |
| Cornwall 064D | 1,513 | 57.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 35.5% |
| Cornwall 064E | 1,775 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 79.5% |
Your MP
- Jayne KirkhamLabour (Co-op)MP for Truro and Falmouth
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 Falmouth1
Middle areas in Falmouth3
Towns near Falmouth6
Falmouth in brief
Falmouth is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 24,289 people lived in Falmouth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £330,000 in 2025 across 359 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 81.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Falmouth was £330,000 in 2025.
Falmouth had 24,066 usual residents at the census.
In Falmouth, 79.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Falmouth, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.