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Seascale

Seascale is a village in Cumbria, England, with a population of around 1,754. It has around 3 restaurants and cafés, 6 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Seascale, located 0.5 km away. The average sold house price is around £233,029, and there were around 6 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 Seascale 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

9°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 12° / 8° · 26% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:23Sunset 16:31

9h 7m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

21US 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

Crime data is temporarily unavailable.

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

22 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 19 rated 4–5 ★ (18 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

Flood data temporarily unavailable.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Seascale (0.5 km)
  • 6 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Seascale (0.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

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

8 charging locations within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 13 kW
  • Nearest: Bailey Ground Hotel (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres3
  • Sports pitches4
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds2

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

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 3 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

Josh MacAlister

Labour

Whitehaven and Workington

Recent votes:

  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 86: High value council tax surcharge
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 55: Value added tax (electric vehicle charging)
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas

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

  • Schools1
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens3
  • Restaurants & cafés5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

12,930 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

91 jobs advertised · £48,921 avg

e.g. Electrical Technical Support, Senior Cloud Solutions Specialist, Business Development Managers – South-East

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

78% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 44% · Wind 34% · Gas 13% · Imports 10%

50 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 · 1 pharmacy in CA20

  • Seascale Health Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Whitehaven and Workington:

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

Notable places nearby

  • St Cuthbert, Seascale · 0.4 km

    St Cuthbert's is in Seascale, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is Seatallan. The church is a Grade II Listed Building.

  • Seascale · 0.5 km

    Seascale is a village and civil parish on the Irish Sea coast of Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland. The parish had a population of 1,754 in 2011, barely decreasing by 0.4% in 2021.

  • Seascale railway station · 0.5 km

    Seascale is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. The station, situated 33+1⁄4 miles (54 km) north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the village of Seascale i…

  • Seascale Lifeboat Station · 0.5 km

    Seascale Lifeboat Station was located in Seascale, a village overlooking the Irish Sea, approximately 13 miles (21 km) south of Whitehaven, in the county of Cumberland, Cumbria.

  • Grey Croft stone circle · 1.3 km

    Grey Croft stone circle is a restored stone circle near Seascale in Cumbria, England. It is situated near the site of the former nuclear-power stations at Sellafield.

  • River Calder, Cumbria · 2.2 km

    The River Calder is a river in Cumbria, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Seascale?
Seascale is a town in Cumbria, England, in the Cumberland local authority.
What is the population of Seascale?
Seascale has an approximate settlement population of 1,754.
How deprived is Seascale?
The Cumberland local authority, which includes Seascale, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.