Penrith
TownTown in Westmorland and Furness, North West.
Penrith is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Penrith 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 37% of people in Penrith live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Penrith compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Penrith safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Penrith at a rate of 87.7 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, 117 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Penrith.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (761), other crime (307) and shoplifting (184).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Penrith was 93.6 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 Penrith, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Penrith has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Penrith
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eden 003A | 1,810 | 85.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.6% |
| Eden 003B | 1,325 | 120.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.4% |
| Eden 003C | 1,381 | 274.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.8% |
| Eden 003D | 1,483 | 149.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.2% |
| Eden 003E | 1,734 | 165.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.1% |
| Eden 004B | 2,159 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| Eden 004C | 1,427 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Eden 004D | 1,103 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 83.6% |
| Eden 004E | 1,491 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.1% |
| Eden 004F | 1,739 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| Eden 004G | 1,335 | 60.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.6% |
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 Penrith1
Middle areas in Penrith2
Towns near Penrith1
Penrith in brief
Penrith is a town in Westmorland and Furness, North West.
About 17,800 people lived in Penrith in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £208,000 in 2025 across 313 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 87.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Penrith was £208,000 in 2025.
Penrith had 16,705 usual residents at the census.
About 37% of people in Penrith live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Penrith, 95.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.