Truro
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Truro is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Truro 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 Truro, 74.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Truro compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Truro safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Truro at a rate of 131.7 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, 291 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Truro.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,341), other crime (547) and anti-social behaviour (529).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Truro was 127.5 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 Truro, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Truro has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Truro
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 042A | 1,520 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 66.4% |
| Cornwall 042B | 2,677 | 42.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 75.8% |
| Cornwall 042C | 2,848 | 61.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 72.0% |
| Cornwall 042D | 1,415 | 158.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 72.6% |
| Cornwall 043D | 1,318 | 97.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.5% |
| Cornwall 043E | 1,443 | 44.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.0% |
| Cornwall 043F | 1,445 | 64.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 51.7% |
| Cornwall 043G | 1,433 | 244.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 79.6% |
| Cornwall 043H | 2,249 | 50.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.4% |
| Cornwall 044A | 1,948 | 70.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.4% |
| Cornwall 044B | 1,524 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.3% |
| Cornwall 044D | 1,369 | 85.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.1% |
| Cornwall 044E | 1,016 | 635.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 63.2% |
| Cornwall 044F | 1,110 | 588.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 59.7% |
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 Truro1
Middle areas in Truro3
Towns near Truro6
Truro in brief
Truro is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 24,244 people lived in Truro in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £290,000 in 2025 across 355 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 131.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Truro was £290,000 in 2025.
Truro had 23,060 usual residents at the census.
In Truro, 74.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Truro, 2.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.