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Wetheral

Wetheral is a village in Cumbria, England, with a population of around 1,605. It has around 1 restaurant and café, 5 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Wetheral, 0.3 km away. In June 2026, there were around 2 recorded street crimes, 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 Wetheral 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
Carlisle
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

4°CClear

  • Today: 11° / 2° · 13% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 4° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:16Sunset 16:32

9h 16m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

16US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Auchencorth Moss, 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

7 reported · August 2026▲ 17% YoY

  • Public order3
  • Violence & sexual offences3
  • Drugs1

1 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Brampton and East Rural · Cumbria

Local policing priorities

  • Complaints around speeding and manner of driving in a number of rural villages. Information from members of the public. Originally raised…

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

34 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 28 rated 4–5 ★ (27 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Wetheral (0.3 km)
  • 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Wetheral (0.2 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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 170.7p · Asda (8.9 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 195.7p · Asda (8.9 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

29 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: Crown Hotel Wetheral (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Sports pitches5
  • 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

  • In a conservation area (Wetheral)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 53 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

Ms Julie Minns

Labour

Carlisle

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
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

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
  • Parks & greens2
  • Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

12,930 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

2 jobs advertised · £15,038 avg

e.g. Childrens Residential Team Leader, Zero Hours House Manager

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

80% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 52% · Wind 28% · Imports 12% · Gas 7%

31 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 · 0 pharmacies in CA4

  • Court Thorn Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Carlisle:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Wetheral railway station · 0.3 km

    Wetheral is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 4 miles 7 chains east of Carlisle, serves the villages of Great Corby and Wetheral in…

  • Wetheral Priory Gatehouse · 0.3 km

    Wetheral Priory Gatehouse is a 15th-century stone fortification in Wetheral, Cumbria. The priory was founded at the start of the 12th century and the gatehouse controlled the entrance to its outer courtyard. When the…

  • 1836 Wetheral train accident · 0.3 km

    The Wetheral train accident occurred in England at about 4 p. m. on Saturday 3 December 1836 when a passenger train on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was wrongly diverted into a siding at Wetheral, a village clo…

  • Wetheral · 0.3 km

    Wetheral is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Cumberland district of the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. The parish, which includes the villages and hamlets of Warwick-on-Eden, Aglionby, Scotby…

  • Corby Bridge · 0.4 km

    Corby Bridge is a railway viaduct adjacent to and immediately east of Wetheral railway station at Wetheral, near Carlisle, in north-western England, begun in 1830 and completed in 1834. It is 920 feet (280 m) long and…

  • Corby Castle · 0.6 km

    Corby Castle is a Grade I listed building and ancestral home of a cadet branch of the prominent Howard family situated on the southern edge of the village of Great Corby in northern Cumbria, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Wetheral?
Wetheral is a town in Cumbria, England, in the Cumberland local authority.
What is the population of Wetheral?
Wetheral has an approximate settlement population of 1,605.
How deprived is Wetheral?
The Cumberland local authority, which includes Wetheral, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.