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Liskeard

Liskeard is a town in Cornwall, England, with a population of around 9,237. It has one GP & clinic, two pharmacies, and 18 restaurants & cafés, with 28 bus stops and Liskeard railway station 1.1 km away. The average sold house price is around £266,133, and there were around 120 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Liskeard area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Cornwall area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 570,308 residents at roughly 161 people per km².

Council
Cornwall
County
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall
Police force
Devon & Cornwall
46/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 179th of 294 English council areas — better than 39% of them.

Low crime85
Home affordability46
Affordable rents52
Good schools16
Life expectancy45
Low deprivation29
Employment57
Low council tax15

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

14°CClear

  • Today: 15° / 11° · 15% rain
  • Tomorrow: 14° / 8° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:05Sunset 16:57

9h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Saltash Callington Road, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 5.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 3.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

136 reported · August 2026▲ 11% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences70
  • Anti-social behaviour15
  • Other theft11
  • Criminal damage & arson10

7 stop & searches · mostly offensive weapons

Neighbourhood team: Liskeard South · Devon And Cornwall

Local policing priorities

  • ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
  • RETAIL CRIME

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

920 reported road collisions (2025)

188 killed or seriously injured · 1,194 casualties · 16.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

70 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 62 rated 4–5 ★ (56 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Liskeard (1.1 km)
  • 28 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Liskeard (1.0 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£274,570 average▼ 2.9% YoY

Across Cornwall · to 2026-08

Detached£419,340
Semi-detached£275,595
Terraced£227,474
Flat£144,637

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,000 average monthly rent▲ 1.8% YoY

  • 1 bed £688
  • 2 bed £880
  • 3 bed £1,077

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

8.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.6 times median annual pay (8.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

7,757 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

EV charging

3 charging locations within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 22 kW
  • Nearest: Trevillis House (1.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres2
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches13
  • Playgrounds16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

570,308 residents in Cornwall · 161/km²

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 58%
  • 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK26,278
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK20,229
  • Net moves+6,049

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 86 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,591 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (25% of 287,200)

A £1,727
B £2,015
C £2,303
D £2,591
E £3,167
F £3,742
G £4,318
H £5,182

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

298 schools · 73,277 pupils

234 primary · 31 secondary · 33 other

Ofsted: 95 of 120 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

278 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Brannel SchoolGood
  • Budehaven Community SchoolGood
  • Callington Community CollegeGood
  • Camborne Science and International AcademyGood
  • Cape Cornwall SchoolGood
  • Helston Community CollegeGood
  • Humphry Davy SchoolGood
  • Launceston CollegeGood
  • Mounts Bay AcademyGood
  • Mullion SchoolGood
  • Poltair SchoolGood
  • Wadebridge SchoolGood
  • Pool AcademyRequires improvement
  • Bodmin College
  • Falmouth School
  • Fowey River Academy
  • Hayle Academy
  • Liskeard School and Community College
  • Looe Community Academy
  • Newquay Tretherras
  • Penair School
  • Penrice Academy
  • Penryn College
  • Redruth School
  • Richard Lander School
  • Saltash Community School
  • Sir James Smith's School
  • St Ives School
  • The Roseland Academy
  • Torpoint Community College
  • Treviglas Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Cornwall

Care & health services

559 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes199
  • GP practices76
  • Dentists108
  • Homecare agencies120
  • Hospitals & hospices25

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cornwall

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (LISKEARD)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 187 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

1,159 applications decided

94.7% granted · 1,098 granted, 61 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Anna Gelderd

Labour

South East Cornwall

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

  • Lab 4
  • Con 7
  • LD 26
  • Grn 3
  • Ref 20
  • Oth 27

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools5
  • GPs & clinics2
  • Pharmacies2
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens8
  • Restaurants & cafés21

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

29,950 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

92 jobs advertised · £38,301 avg

e.g. Dumper Driver, Chief Medical Consultant for UHNW Principals, Relief Support Worker

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£679 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,630 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

37% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 316,885 certificates

12.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

6% low-carbon electricity

Gas 94% · Wind 6%

370 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 83.8 yrs women · 80.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 60 women · 60.2 men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.5
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

4 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in PL14

  • Oak Tree Surgery
  • Rosedean Surgery
  • Kccg-Ent Clinic Liskeard

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South East Cornwall:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Liskeard Guildhall · 0.1 km

    Liskeard Guildhall is a municipal building in Pike Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Liskeard Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

  • Liskeard · 0.3 km

    Liskeard is an ancient stannary and market town and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth, 14 miles (23 km) west of the Devon bord…

  • St Martin's Church, Liskeard · 0.3 km

    St Martin's Church, Liskeard is a Church of England parish church in Liskeard, Cornwall, the second-largest parish church in Cornwall after St Petroc's Church, Bodmin.

  • Addington, Cornwall · 0.7 km

    Addington is a residential area of northeast Liskeard, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located at grid reference SX 259 651. According to the Post Office the population of the area at the 2011 census was…

  • Liskeard Athletic F.C. · 0.7 km

    Liskeard Athletic Football Club is a football club based in Liskeard, Cornwall, England. They are currently members of the Western League Premier Division and play at Lux Park.

  • Liskeard School and Community College · 1.0 km

    Liskeard School and Community College is a coeducational comprehensive secondary school and sixth form with former engineering specialist status, located in Liskeard, Cornwall, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Liskeard?
Liskeard is a town in Cornwall, England, in the Cornwall local authority.
What is the population of Liskeard?
Liskeard has an approximate settlement population of 9,237.
How deprived is Liskeard?
The Cornwall local authority, which includes Liskeard, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.