Sellafield

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• Today: 12° / 8° · 34% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:16Sunset 16:39

9h 23m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

74US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Blackpool Marton, United Kingdom

• 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

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)

15 food businesses within 2 miles

• 14 rated 4–5 ★ (14 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Sellafield (0.7 km)
• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£172,654 average▲ 4.1% YoY

Across Cumberland · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£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

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

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

4 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 13 kW
• Nearest: Sella Park Country House Hotel (1.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Golf courses1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Cumberland's ceremonies team nominated for top regional wedding award· 30 Oct 2026
• Free Cumberland bike giveaway for local children· 30 Oct 2026
• Hop on board: new bus connections for Cockermouth and Papcastle· 29 Oct 2026
• Progress continues on Carlisle Market Hall bus hub improvements· 29 Oct 2026
• Lighting the Way for Workington Hall Following Planning Approval· 28 Oct 2026

Source: Cumberland Council

273,254 residents in Cumberland

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• 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

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

£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%)

172 inspected 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: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cumberland

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

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

337 applications decided

93.8% granted · 316 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Labour majority

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

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

12,930 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

31 jobs advertised · £66,674 avg

e.g. Project Controls Lead, Technical Author, Area Engineering Manager AXIOM 376425

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

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

1 GP surgery · 1 pharmacy in CA20

• Seascale Health Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Whitehaven and Workington:

• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK229 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth182 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately148 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND138 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills125 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

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  Windscale Piles · 0.5 km

  The Windscale Piles were two air-cooled graphite-moderated nuclear reactors on the Windscale nuclear site in Cumberland on the north-west coast of England. The two reactors, referred to at the time as "piles", were bu…

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  Windscale fire · 0.5 km

  The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in the United Kingdom's history, ranked in severity at level 5 out of 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The fire was in Unit 1 of the two-…

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  Windscale Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor · 0.5 km

  The Windscale Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (WAGR) was a nuclear power plant constructed on the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England.

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  Sellafield · 0.5 km

  Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nu…

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  Sellafield railway station · 0.7 km

  Sellafield is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. It serves Sellafield, in Cumbria, England; it is situated 35 miles (56 km) north-west of Barrow-in-Furness…

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  Magnox Reprocessing Plant · 0.8 km

  The Magnox Reprocessing Plant is a former nuclear reprocessing facility at Sellafield in northern England, which operated from 1964 to 2022. The plant used PUREX chemistry to extract plutonium and uranium from used nu…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)