Neighbourhoods in Cumberland
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
33 neighbourhoods · 177 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Cumberland
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Cumberland. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Cumberland median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Cumberland.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Cumberland
Crime in Cumberland runs at 41% below the national average. Above median (#134 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 59.1, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Cumberland
100% of schools serving Cumberland are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Cumberland
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Cumberland
Cumberland has 0.48 jobs per resident locally. Above median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Cumberland
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Cumberland?
- The median monthly rent across Cumberland is £659, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Cumberland?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Cumberland by estimated median rent is Workington West at approximately £513/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Cumberland?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Cumberland is Millom & Duddon Valley at 99/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Cumberland a safe area?
- Cumberland has an average safety score of 68/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Cumberland?
- The most common council tax band in Cumberland is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,069. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Cumberland.
- What is the average salary in Cumberland?
- The median annual resident salary in Cumberland is £33,840, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Cumberland, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Cumberland?
- The average property price in Cumberland is approximately £171,203 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Cumberland?
- Gross rental yield in Cumberland is approximately 4.5% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Cumberland?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 2.5 years in Cumberland. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Cumberland?
- 100% of premises in Cumberland are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Cumberland?
- 2.6% of 16-64 residents in Cumberland are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Cumberland?
- Cumberland contains 33 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 177 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Cumberland
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Carlisle 006B
- Copeland 008G
- Carlisle 008B
- Carlisle 010F
- Carlisle 006C
- Carlisle 008A
- Carlisle 010C
- Allerdale 008B
- Carlisle 010A
- Carlisle 011E
- Allerdale 012F
- Allerdale 009E
- Carlisle 011D
- Carlisle 006D
- Carlisle 008C
- Carlisle 009D
- Carlisle 003B
- Allerdale 006D
- Carlisle 010B
- Carlisle 010D
- Carlisle 009B
- Carlisle 007A
- Carlisle 004F
- Carlisle 009A
- Carlisle 001B
- Carlisle 013A
- Carlisle 001D
- Carlisle 002D
- Allerdale 011B
- Carlisle 011F
- Allerdale 004E
- Carlisle 004A
- Copeland 002B
- Allerdale 008A
- Carlisle 009E
- Carlisle 012A
- Allerdale 004D
- Carlisle 011C
- Carlisle 011A
- Allerdale 001G
- Carlisle 012C
- Carlisle 010E
- Allerdale 004C
- Carlisle 005C
- Carlisle 006A
- Allerdale 003C
- Carlisle 001C
- Carlisle 002C
- Carlisle 006E
- Carlisle 011B
- Carlisle 009C
- Allerdale 010B
- Allerdale 010C
- Allerdale 001F
- Allerdale 006E
- Carlisle 008D
- Carlisle 001A
- Carlisle 012B
- Copeland 004J
- Carlisle 004C
- Carlisle 007C
- Allerdale 005C
- Carlisle 013J
- Copeland 004E
- Copeland 004F
- Allerdale 003A
- Copeland 007D
- Copeland 006E
- Allerdale 011D
- Copeland 008D
- Allerdale 002D
- Carlisle 012D
- Carlisle 009F
- Carlisle 008E
- Allerdale 004B
- Carlisle 002A
- Allerdale 009D
- Copeland 006D
- Carlisle 004D
- Carlisle 002B
Showing 80 of 177 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.