Ulverston
TownTown in Westmorland and Furness, North West.
Ulverston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ulverston 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 Ulverston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ulverston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ulverston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ulverston at a rate of 69.5 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, 59 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ulverston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (433), other crime (160) and criminal damage and arson (84).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ulverston was 66.3 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 Ulverston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ulverston has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ulverston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Lakeland 012A | 1,937 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.9% |
| South Lakeland 012B | 2,336 | 60.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.9% |
| South Lakeland 012C | 1,984 | 86.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.6% |
| South Lakeland 012D | 1,852 | 129.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.3% |
| South Lakeland 014D | 1,743 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| South Lakeland 014E | 1,972 | 40.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.8% |
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 Ulverston1
Middle areas in Ulverston1
Towns near Ulverston6
Ulverston in brief
Ulverston is a town in Westmorland and Furness, North West.
About 11,791 people lived in Ulverston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £247,000 in 2025 across 221 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ulverston was £247,000 in 2025.
Ulverston had 11,219 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Ulverston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ulverston, 93.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.