Cockermouth
TownTown in Cumberland, North West.
Cockermouth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cockermouth 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 100% of people in Cockermouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cockermouth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cockermouth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cockermouth at a rate of 46.5 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, 34 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cockermouth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (218), other crime (88) and criminal damage and arson (44).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cockermouth was 43.7 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 Cockermouth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cockermouth has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Cockermouth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allerdale 006D | 1,839 | 89.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.7% |
| Allerdale 007A | 1,435 | 31.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.9% |
| Allerdale 007B | 1,387 | 34.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Allerdale 007C | 1,918 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.5% |
| Allerdale 007D | 1,580 | 52.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Markus Campbell-SavoursLabourMP for Penrith and Solway
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 Cockermouth1
Middle areas in Cockermouth1
Towns near Cockermouth3
Cockermouth in brief
Cockermouth is a town in Cumberland, North West.
About 9,329 people lived in Cockermouth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £240,000 in 2025 across 171 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 46.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cockermouth was £240,000 in 2025.
Cockermouth had 8,859 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Cockermouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cockermouth, 94.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.