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Keswick

Keswick is a town in Cumbria, England, with a population of around 4,658. It has 34 restaurants and cafés, along with 27 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Threlkeld Quarry, 5.8km away. The average sold house price is around £415,674, and there were around 31 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Keswick area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Cumberland area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025).

Council
Cumberland
County
Cumbria
Constituency
Copeland
Police force
Cumbria
52/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 135th of 294 English council areas — better than 54% of them.

Home affordability99
Affordable rents100
Good schools51
Life expectancy20
Low deprivation33
Low council tax29

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. Scored on 70% of the full weighting — some data isn't available here. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

8°CClear

  • Today: 10° / 3° · 23% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 3° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:19Sunset 16:33

9h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Blackpool Marton, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 4.4 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 3.4% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

44 reported · August 2026▲ 13% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences16
  • Anti-social behaviour11
  • Other theft6
  • Shoplifting4

6 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Keswick · Cumbria

Local policing priorities

  • Parking in Borrowdale and Buttermere
  • Complaints of persistent Fly Camping around Keswick and Derwent Water during the summer of 2025 causing ASB and Damage to the environment…

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

Road safety

388 reported road collisions (2025)

115 killed or seriously injured · 480 casualties · 14.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

164 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 144 rated 4–5 ★ (123 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Threlkeld Quarry (5.8 km)
  • 27 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

House prices

£172,654 average▲ 4.1% YoY

Across Cumberland · to 2026-08

Detached£286,152
Semi-detached£179,276
Terraced£143,160
Flat£94,927

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£681 average monthly rent▲ 7% YoY

  • 1 bed £508
  • 2 bed £643
  • 3 bed £785

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

Affordability

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

Property sales

4,147 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

12 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 62 kW
  • Nearest: Central Car Park, Keswick (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres3
  • Gyms1
  • Sports pitches29
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

273,254 residents in Cumberland

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK9,516
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,851
  • Net moves+2,665

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 98 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,511 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,674
B £1,953
C £2,232
D £2,511
E £3,069
F £3,627
G £4,186
H £5,023

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

Schools

180 schools · 39,292 pupils

145 primary · 19 secondary · 16 other

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

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

Secondary schools:

  • Keswick SchoolOutstanding
  • Caldew SchoolGood
  • Energy Coast UTCGood
  • Millom SchoolGood
  • St John Henry Newman Catholic SchoolGood
  • The Nelson Thomlinson SchoolGood
  • The Whitehaven AcademyGood
  • Workington AcademyGood
  • St Josephs Catholic High School, WorkingtonRequires improvement
  • Beacon Hill Community School
  • Cockermouth School
  • Netherhall School
  • Richard Rose Central Academy
  • Richard Rose Morton Academy
  • Solway Community School
  • St Benedict's Catholic High School
  • Trinity School
  • West Lakes Academy
  • William Howard School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Cumberland

Care & health services

256 CQC-registered services

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

CQC ratings: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cumberland

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

337 applications decided

93.8% granted · 316 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Markus Campbell-Savours

Labour

Penrith and Solway

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
  • AyeNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: New Clause 12

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour majority

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

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies2
  • Supermarkets2
  • Parks & greens179
  • Restaurants & cafés68

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

12,930 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

6 jobs advertised · £40,823 avg

e.g. Sales Advisor, AUDIOLOGIST KESWICK, LAKE DISTRICT, CUMBRIA, Micon Jobs - Express your interest!

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

68% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 44% · Wind 22% · Gas 22% · Imports 10%

87 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Health services

1 GP surgery · 2 pharmacies in CA12

  • Castlehead Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Penrith and Solway:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Cars of the Stars Motor Museum · 0.3 km

    The Cars of the Stars Motor Museum was in the English town of Keswick, Cumbria, and owned a collection of celebrity television and film vehicles. The museum opened in 1989 and closed in 2011. The sister site The Bond…

  • Moot Hall, Keswick · 0.3 km

    The Moot Hall is a prominent historic building situated at the southern end of Main Street in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It is Grade II* listed.

  • Keswick, Cumbria · 0.4 km

    Keswick is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It lies within the Lake District National Park, just north of Derwentwater and 4 mi (6.4 km) from Bassenthwaite L…

  • Keswick Museum · 0.4 km

    Keswick Museum is a local museum based in Keswick in the English Lake District, which exhibits aspects of the landscape, history and culture of the area.

  • Fitz Park · 0.5 km

    Fitz Park is a public park in Keswick, Cumbria. Landscaped in the Victorian period, the park contains shrubberies and specimen trees, and provides open space for recreation. There are sports grounds for tennis and bow…

  • Keswick railway station · 0.5 km

    Keswick railway station served the town of Keswick, in Cumberland, England, between 1865 and 1972. It was a stop on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway between Penrith and Cockermouth; for much of its existen…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Keswick?
Keswick is a town in Cumbria, England, in the Cumberland local authority.
What is the population of Keswick?
Keswick has an approximate settlement population of 4,658.
How deprived is Keswick?
The Cumberland local authority, which includes Keswick, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.