Carlisle
TownTown in Cumberland, North West.
Carlisle is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Carlisle 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 0% of people in Carlisle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Carlisle compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Carlisle safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Carlisle at a rate of 119.6 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, 855 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Carlisle.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,346), other crime (2,148) and criminal damage and arson (878).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Carlisle was 115.0 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 Carlisle, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Carlisle has no single figure. Of its 52 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Carlisle
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlisle 003A | 1,555 | 36.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| Carlisle 003B | 1,367 | 58.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.0% |
| Carlisle 003C | 1,668 | 98.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.4% |
| Carlisle 003D | 1,451 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.8% |
| Carlisle 003E | 1,447 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.4% |
| Carlisle 004A | 1,784 | 75.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.1% |
| Carlisle 004D | 1,895 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 004E | 1,410 | 32.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Carlisle 005A | 1,367 | 29.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 005B | 1,366 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.3% |
| Carlisle 005D | 1,313 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| Carlisle 005E | 1,306 | 28.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Carlisle 006A | 1,022 | 721.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 63.2% |
| Carlisle 006B | 1,675 | 792.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 76.8% |
| Carlisle 006C | 1,361 | 196.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Carlisle 006D | 1,370 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| Carlisle 006E | 1,363 | 116.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Carlisle 006F | 1,235 | 82.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.2% |
| Carlisle 008A | 1,601 | 168.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.0% |
| Carlisle 008B | 1,311 | 105.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 008C | 1,495 | 101.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.5% |
| Carlisle 008D | 1,513 | 87.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Carlisle 008E | 1,293 | 76.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 009A | 2,004 | 121.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Carlisle 009B | 2,159 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.8% |
| Carlisle 009C | 1,561 | 154.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Carlisle 009D | 1,717 | 116.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Carlisle 009E | 1,406 | 56.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 009F | 1,317 | 86.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.0% |
| Carlisle 010A | 1,363 | 118.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Carlisle 010B | 1,521 | 427.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 87.9% |
| Carlisle 010C | 1,731 | 132.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.9% |
| Carlisle 010D | 1,565 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.7% |
| Carlisle 010E | 1,519 | 161.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.3% |
| Carlisle 010F | 1,634 | 150.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| Carlisle 011A | 2,116 | 125.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.4% |
| Carlisle 011B | 1,325 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Carlisle 011C | 1,051 | 99.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 011D | 1,772 | 49.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.2% |
| Carlisle 011E | 1,725 | 132.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.6% |
| Carlisle 011F | 1,541 | 114.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Carlisle 012A | 1,453 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 012B | 1,344 | 88.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 012C | 1,210 | 86.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Carlisle 012D | 1,373 | 78.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 012E | 1,164 | 90.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Carlisle 013D | 1,370 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.1% |
| Carlisle 013E | 1,694 | 67.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Carlisle 013F | 1,109 | 50.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.6% |
| Carlisle 013G | 1,570 | 33.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.3% |
| Carlisle 013H | 1,230 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Carlisle 013J | 1,804 | 136.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.2% |
Your MP
- Ms Julie MinnsLabourMP for Carlisle
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 Carlisle3
Middle areas in Carlisle9
Towns near Carlisle2
Carlisle in brief
Carlisle is a town in Cumberland, North West.
About 81,260 people lived in Carlisle in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £154,000 in 2025 across 1,359 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 119.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Carlisle was £154,000 in 2025.
Carlisle had 77,729 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Carlisle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Carlisle, 94.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.