Penzance
Penzance is covered by postcode districts TR18, TR20 and TR21. It is in the Cornwall council area, England.
Every postcode in Penzance, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 21
- In use before 2020: 592
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 613 postcodes in Penzance that ONS places, 21 are new since 2020 and 592 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.1205, longitude -5.5418. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 10 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. TR18 9GT, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Penzance?
Homes sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.7% on the 12 months before. At 345 of the 588 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 415 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 85 of its 613 postcodes. It has at least 5 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Penzance, 650 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Penzance?
Homes in Penzance sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 154 sales, down 1.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £365,000 17 sales
- Semi-detached £290,000 20 sales
- Terraced £250,000 85 sales
- Flat or maisonette £162,500 32 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole TR18 district, Penzance's main postcode district: a typical £252,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Penzance: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Penzance?
21 of the 613 postcodes now in use in Penzance came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 233 homes sold in Penzance were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TR18 district, Under 1%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Penzance | Across the TR18 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 154 (0%) | 0 of 203 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 1 of 233 (Under 1%) | 1 of 307 (Under 1%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Penzance?
Ofcom reports on 588 of the 613 postcodes in Penzance. At 345 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Penzance at risk of flooding?
85 of the 613 postcodes in Penzance have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 415 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Penzance?
The open schools at the postcodes in Penzance. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- St Mary's Catholic School, Penzance650 m 139 pupils, 210 places
- Pensans Community Primary School700 m 139 pupils, 210 places
- St Mary's CofE Primary School, Penzance700 m 141 pupils, 190 places
- Penwith Alternative Provision Academy750 m 44 pupils, 54 places
- Nancealverne School800 m 138 pupils, 83 places
- Alverton Primary School850 m 386 pupils, 315 places
- Heamoor Community Primary School1.3 km 201 pupils, 210 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Penzance?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Penzance is Penzance Rail Station, 650 m away in a straight line.
- Penzance Rail Station Railway station 650 mWalk
- St Erth Rail Station Railway station 8.9 kmDrive
- Lelant Saltings Rail Station Railway station 9.7 kmDrive
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Penzance?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Penzance. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Atlantic Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01736 363741 300 mWalk
- Rosmellyn Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01736 330909 300 mWalk
- Sunnyside Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01736 363340 300 mWalk
- Morrab Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01736 363866 450 mWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Penzance safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,989 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Penzance over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 211 September 2025
- 191 October 2025
- 175 November 2025
- 130 December 2025
- 127 January 2026
- 139 February 2026
- 161 March 2026
- 157 April 2026
- 168 May 2026
- 184 June 2026
- 174 July 2026
- 172 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 36, other crime 36, robbery 18, theft from the person 16, possession of weapons 14, bicycle theft 1.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Penzance?
- Council
- Cornwall
- Parliamentary constituency
- St Ives
- Police force area
- Devon & Cornwall
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Andrew George (Liberal Democrat)
All 613 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources
Moving to Penzance
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Cornwall about council tax Council tax, on cornwall.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Penzance
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Penzance postcodes
613 postcodes in use in Penzance, by district:
Those districts are all in the TR postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Penzance
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Penzance's £255,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Penzance
- What is it like to live in Penzance?
- Homes sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.7% on the 12 months before. At 345 of the 588 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 415 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 85 of its 613 postcodes. It has at least 5 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Penzance, 650 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Penzance?
- Penzance is covered by postcode districts TR18, TR20 and TR21, across 613 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Penzance in?
- Penzance is in the Cornwall council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Penzance?
- Penzance is in the St Ives parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Andrew George (Liberal Democrat), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Penzance?
- Homes in Penzance sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 154 sales, down 1.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Penzance?
- In Penzance, primary schools at its postcodes include St Mary's Catholic School, Penzance, Pensans Community Primary School and St Mary's CofE Primary School, Penzance; secondary schools at its postcodes include Humphry Davy School, Penwith Alternative Provision Academy and Nancealverne School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Does Penzance have a railway station?
- Yes: Penzance is 650 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Penzance, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Penzance?
- Ofcom reports on 588 of the 613 postcodes in Penzance. At 345 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Penzance at risk of flooding?
- 85 of the 613 postcodes in Penzance have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 415 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Penzance?
- 21 of the 613 postcodes now in use in Penzance came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 233 homes sold in Penzance were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TR18 district, Under 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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