Is Penryn a good place to live?

Penryn has 11,194 residents, 61% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (5.6 per 1,000 a month) is below the median English town of its size (9.8). Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Penryn postcode.

Penryn recorded 5.6 crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary over 2026-06 to 2026-08 (police.uk), against 9.8 for the median English town of this size. The largest category was violent.

How many people live in Penryn?

11,194 people live in Penryn (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 14.1 km² — about 794 per km².

What are the schools like in Penryn?

There are 3 schools inside Penryn; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Penryn College, Penryn Primary Academy and Mabe Community Primary School.

Penryn is a town in Cornwall, South West, England, served by Penryn and Ponsharden Ferry Landing railway stations.

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Living in Penryn

Penryn is a town in Cornwall, South West, England. This guide describes it as one place — who lives there, what sits inside its boundary and how safe it is — from official UK data. For any single street, the NestScope area report covers every Penryn postcode.

Penryn is a town of 11,194 people at 794 per km², where 61% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 2 of its 2 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and it recorded 5.6 crimes per 1,000 residents a month.

Lower crime than most towns
Mixed neighbourhoods
2 railway stations
Spacious
Fewer parks than most towns

11,194Penryn population

794people per km²

61%live in England's better-off half

5.6crimes per 1,000 a month

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schools stations parks14.1 km² · ONS built-up area boundary

01 — What's in Penryn

What's in Penryn: schools, GPs, stations, parks and shops

Counted inside the town boundary. A school or station two streets past it belongs to the next place.

●Schools100% of inspected rated Good or Outstanding3

●GP practices · hospitals2 pharmacies, 3 dentists2 · 0

●Rail stations · bus stopsPenryn, Ponsharden Ferry Landing2 · 67

●Parks & playing fields15.3 ha — (·· ha), (·· ha), (·· ha)12

●Supermarkets3

●Libraries1

02 — Schools in Penryn

Best-rated schools in Penryn

1Penryn CollegeSecondaryGood 2Penryn Primary AcademyPrimaryGood 3Mabe Community Primary SchoolPrimary—

Ranked by Ofsted grade. All 3 schools → Schools in Penryn

03 — Penryn crime rate

Penryn crime rate

5.6crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary · 2026-06 to 2026-08

Fewer than the median English town of this size (9.8) · 63 recorded crimes a month in all

Violent

ASB

Shoplifting

Public order

Vehicle

Burglary

England median for a town of this size · full bar = 10 per 1,000 a month · police.uk street-level data

04 — Questions about Penryn

Is Penryn a good place to live?: Penryn has 11,194 residents, 61% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (5.6 per 1,000 a month) is below the median English town of its size (9.8). Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Penryn postcode.
Is Penryn safe?: Penryn recorded 5.6 crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary over 2026-06 to 2026-08 (police.uk), against 9.8 for the median English town of this size. The largest category was violent.
How many people live in Penryn?: 11,194 people live in Penryn (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 14.1 km² — about 794 per km².
What are the schools like in Penryn?: There are 3 schools inside Penryn; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Penryn College, Penryn Primary Academy and Mabe Community Primary School.
Where is Penryn?: Penryn is a town in Cornwall, South West, England, served by Penryn and Ponsharden Ferry Landing railway stations.

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This page is NestScope's guide to Penryn as a whole town, built from the same official sources as the area reports: the ONS boundary of the built-up area, Census 2021, the English Indices of Deprivation, police.uk recorded crime and the Department for Education's school register. Counts are of what sits inside the boundary; crime is a three-month average. It is updated as those sources publish.

Sources — ONS built-up areas 2022, Output Area lookups and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0) · English Indices of Deprivation 2019, carried onto 2021 LSOAs · police.uk street-level crime, the town boundary passed as the query polygon · DfE GIAS + Ofsted, NHS ODS, NaPTAN, OS Open Greenspace, Geolytix, Arts Council — every point counted by which 2021 neighbourhood it falls in.