Neighbourhoods in Westmorland and Furness
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31 neighbourhoods · 142 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 Westmorland and Furness
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Westmorland and Furness. 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 Westmorland and Furness median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Westmorland and Furness.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Westmorland and Furness
Crime in Westmorland and Furness runs at 2.0× safer than the national average. Top quartile (#71 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 49.6, 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 Westmorland and Furness
100% of schools serving Westmorland and Furness 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 Westmorland and Furness
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 Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness 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 Westmorland and Furness
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 Westmorland and Furness?
- The median monthly rent across Westmorland and Furness is £797, 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 Westmorland and Furness?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Westmorland and Furness by estimated median rent is Barrow Central at approximately £570/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Westmorland and Furness?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Westmorland and Furness is Parkside at 100/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Westmorland and Furness a safe area?
- Westmorland and Furness has an average safety score of 72/100 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 Westmorland and Furness?
- The most common council tax band in Westmorland and Furness is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,066. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Westmorland and Furness.
- What is the average salary in Westmorland and Furness?
- The median annual resident salary in Westmorland and Furness is £33,988, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Westmorland and Furness, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Westmorland and Furness?
- The average property price in Westmorland and Furness is approximately £220,821 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 Westmorland and Furness?
- Gross rental yield in Westmorland and Furness is approximately 3.7% — 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 Westmorland and Furness?
- 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 3.6 years in Westmorland and Furness. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Westmorland and Furness?
- 100% of premises in Westmorland and Furness 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 Westmorland and Furness?
- 1.9% of 16-64 residents in Westmorland and Furness 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 Westmorland and Furness?
- Westmorland and Furness contains 31 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 142 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 Westmorland and Furness
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.
- South Lakeland 012D
- Barrow-in-Furness 008B
- South Lakeland 004C
- Barrow-in-Furness 001D
- Barrow-in-Furness 007D
- Barrow-in-Furness 008D
- Barrow-in-Furness 008C
- South Lakeland 004A
- Eden 004E
- Barrow-in-Furness 005E
- Eden 003C
- South Lakeland 004B
- South Lakeland 003C
- Eden 003E
- Eden 007A
- Eden 001A
- Eden 006B
- Barrow-in-Furness 008E
- Barrow-in-Furness 005A
- Barrow-in-Furness 007G
- South Lakeland 012C
- South Lakeland 002B
- South Lakeland 004D
- Eden 004F
- South Lakeland 001D
- Barrow-in-Furness 009E
- Eden 002A
- South Lakeland 003B
- South Lakeland 009C
- South Lakeland 003D
- South Lakeland 007B
- South Lakeland 011E
- South Lakeland 001A
- South Lakeland 006C
- South Lakeland 012B
- Barrow-in-Furness 002C
- Barrow-in-Furness 010B
- Eden 003A
- Eden 007C
- Barrow-in-Furness 001B
- South Lakeland 006H
- South Lakeland 002C
- Barrow-in-Furness 004B
- South Lakeland 008D
- Barrow-in-Furness 007C
- South Lakeland 010B
- South Lakeland 009D
- Barrow-in-Furness 008A
- Barrow-in-Furness 005C
- Eden 006D
- Barrow-in-Furness 010D
- Barrow-in-Furness 004A
- South Lakeland 005D
- South Lakeland 012A
- Barrow-in-Furness 005D
- Eden 002C
- Barrow-in-Furness 009F
- South Lakeland 006I
- South Lakeland 013A
- South Lakeland 006D
- South Lakeland 007C
- Eden 006C
- Barrow-in-Furness 004D
- South Lakeland 009B
- Eden 004B
- South Lakeland 011F
- Eden 004A
- Eden 002D
- South Lakeland 014D
- Eden 005D
- South Lakeland 013B
- South Lakeland 011D
- Eden 003D
- Eden 005A
- South Lakeland 013E
- South Lakeland 008C
- Eden 003B
- Barrow-in-Furness 006A
- South Lakeland 001C
- Barrow-in-Furness 009C
Showing 80 of 142 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.