Cargo

14°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 17° / 10° · 22% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:36

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

52US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Auchencorth Moss, United Kingdom

3 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences2
• Drugs1

6 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Brampton and East Rural · Cumbria

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

411 reported road collisions (2024)

114 killed or seriously injured · 506 casualties · 15 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

47 food businesses within 2 miles

• 43 rated 4–5 ★ (42 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Carlisle (5.3 km)
• 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£172,036 average▲ 6.9% YoY

Across Cumberland · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£675 average monthly rent▲ 6.9% YoY

• 1 bed £503
• 2 bed £637
• 3 bed £778

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

4.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.2 times median annual pay (4.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 163.7p · Asda (2.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.7p · Asda (2.5 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

36 charging locations within ~8 km

• 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Story Homes (1.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Helping Residents Plan Ahead for Upcoming Roadworks in Workington
• Council warns residents: Don’t bin your batteries after e-bike battery sparks fire risk in bin lorry
• Take Centre Stage at Carlisle's Christmas Lights Switch On 2026
• Festival of Curious Things in Workington postponed
• Tribute to outgoing Millom Town Deal Board Chair

Source: Cumberland Council

273,254 residents in Cumberland

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

£2,511 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (46% of 138,550)

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

180 schools · 39,292 pupils

145 primary · 19 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 64 of 72 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

172inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Cumberland

256 CQC-registered services

• Care homes78
• GP practices29
• Dentists54
• Homecare agencies61
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cumberland

• Not in the Green Belt
• 14 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

285 applications decided

94.7% granted · 270 granted, 15 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Ms Julie Minns

Labour

Carlisle

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 25
• Con 8
• LD 4
• Grn 3
• Ref 1
• Oth 5

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

12,795 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

5 jobs advertised

e.g. Become a Arabic Tutor in Cargo – Flexible & Remote, Online Spanish Tutoring Job in Cargo – Flexible Schedule, Level 3 Engineering Maintenance Technician (Electrical) - BSW Timber

Source: Adzuna

£800 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,684 disposable income per head (2024)

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

51% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 24,300 certificates

13% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

72% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 58% · Imports 18% · Gas 10% · Biomass 7%

46 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.2 yrs women · 78.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 60.1 women · 59 men

67% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Carlisle:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office485 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s376 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership369 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance268 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership238 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• 
  Cargo, Cumbria · 0.4 km

  Cargo is a small village near the River Eden on the Solway Plain. Cargo is about 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Carlisle in Cumbria in the North West of England. The name Cargo reflects a combination of two languag…

• Carlisle Kingmoor Marshalling Yard · 0.7 km

  Carlisle Kingmoor Marshalling Yard is a stabling point located in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. The depot is situated on the West Coast Main Line and is near Carlisle station.

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  Kingmoor · 0.8 km

  Kingmoor is a civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England, to the north west of Carlisle city centre. At the 2011 census it had a population of 735.

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  Milecastle 69 · 1.4 km

  Milecastle 69 (Sourmilk Bridge) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY36575811).

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  Grinsdale · 1.6 km

  Grinsdale is a village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Beaumont, in the Cumberland district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, historically in Cumberland. Grinsdale has a church called…

• Rockcliffe railway station · 1.6 km

  Rockcliffe railway station, later Rockcliffe Halt, served the rural area around Rockcliffe, north of Carlisle in the English county of Cumberland ; it lay some distance from the village. The station was served by loca…

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