Barrow-in-Furness
TownTown in Westmorland and Furness, North West.
Barrow-in-Furness is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Barrow-in-Furness add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 10% of people in Barrow-in-Furness live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Barrow-in-Furness compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Barrow-in-Furness safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barrow-in-Furness at a rate of 110.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 516 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barrow-in-Furness.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,857), other crime (1,246) and criminal damage and arson (619).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Barrow-in-Furness was 113.8 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Barrow-in-Furness, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Barrow-in-Furness has no single figure. Of its 40 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Barrow-in-Furness
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrow-in-Furness 003A | 1,335 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 003B | 1,005 | 27.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.9% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 003C | 1,289 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 72.9% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 003D | 1,342 | 113.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 69.8% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 003E | 1,547 | 12.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 003F | 1,251 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.9% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 004A | 1,389 | 490.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 004B | 1,181 | 91.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.8% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 004C | 1,524 | 134.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.1% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 004D | 1,415 | 116.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 88.2% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 004E | 1,247 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 005A | 1,364 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 005B | 1,313 | 96.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.2% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 005C | 1,382 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 005D | 1,230 | 67.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 005E | 1,181 | 159.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 006A | 2,141 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.1% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 006B | 1,807 | 14.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.2% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 006C | 1,446 | 92.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 006D | 1,527 | 47.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.5% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 006E | 1,180 | 11.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 72.7% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 007B | 1,363 | 127.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.5% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 007C | 1,266 | 107.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 007D | 1,134 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 007F | 1,475 | 83.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 007G | 2,021 | 119.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 008A | 1,189 | 552.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.3% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 008B | 1,350 | 81.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 008C | 1,452 | 253.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.6% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 008D | 1,308 | 455.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.9% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 008E | 1,110 | 152.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 009A | 1,688 | 23.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 79.1% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 009C | 1,408 | 51.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.6% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 009E | 1,343 | 52.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 009F | 2,246 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.3% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 010A | 1,154 | 109.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.5% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 010B | 1,059 | 211.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.4% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 010C | 1,350 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 010D | 1,202 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 010E | 1,282 | 62.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.3% |
Your MP
- Michelle ScroghamLabourMP for Barrow and Furness
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Barrow-in-Furness2
Middle areas in Barrow-in-Furness8
Towns near Barrow-in-Furness6
Barrow-in-Furness in brief
Barrow-in-Furness is a town in Westmorland and Furness, North West.
About 55,823 people lived in Barrow-in-Furness in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £155,000 in 2025 across 855 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 110.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Barrow-in-Furness was £155,000 in 2025.
Barrow-in-Furness had 55,260 usual residents at the census.
About 10% of people in Barrow-in-Furness live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Barrow-in-Furness, 92.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.