Kendal
TownTown in Westmorland and Furness, North West.
Kendal is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kendal 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 Kendal live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kendal compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kendal safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kendal at a rate of 80.4 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, 197 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kendal.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,109), other crime (458) and criminal damage and arson (208).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kendal was 78.2 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 Kendal, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kendal has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 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 Kendal
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Lakeland 003B | 2,617 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
| South Lakeland 003C | 2,111 | 164.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.7% |
| South Lakeland 003D | 2,277 | 86.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| South Lakeland 004A | 2,061 | 261.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 83.7% |
| South Lakeland 004B | 1,906 | 142.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.0% |
| South Lakeland 004C | 2,061 | 70.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| South Lakeland 004D | 2,292 | 55.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| South Lakeland 005A | 1,780 | 41.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.3% |
| South Lakeland 005B | 1,846 | 16.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| South Lakeland 005C | 1,705 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| South Lakeland 006A | 1,792 | 19.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Lakeland 006C | 2,217 | 21.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Lakeland 006D | 1,932 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| South Lakeland 006H | 1,219 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| South Lakeland 006I | 1,773 | 94.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.3% |
Your MP
- Tim FarronLiberal DemocratMP for Westmorland and Lonsdale
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 Kendal1
Middle areas in Kendal4
Towns near Kendal4
Kendal in brief
Kendal is a town in Westmorland and Furness, North West.
About 29,564 people lived in Kendal in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £256,250 in 2025 across 514 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 80.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kendal was £256,250 in 2025.
Kendal had 28,939 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Kendal live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kendal, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.