Whitehaven
TownTown in Cumberland, North West.
Whitehaven is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whitehaven 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 Whitehaven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whitehaven compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whitehaven safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whitehaven at a rate of 97.6 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, 197 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whitehaven.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,183), other crime (466) and criminal damage and arson (221).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Whitehaven was 102.1 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 Whitehaven, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whitehaven has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- 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 Whitehaven
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copeland 002A | 1,415 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.0% |
| Copeland 002B | 1,448 | 526.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 70.7% |
| Copeland 002C | 1,118 | 165.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 78.9% |
| Copeland 002D | 1,204 | 29.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.3% |
| Copeland 003A | 1,657 | 21.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 73.6% |
| Copeland 003B | 1,598 | 18.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Copeland 003C | 1,154 | 80.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.8% |
| Copeland 003D | 1,363 | 114.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.1% |
| Copeland 003E | 1,318 | 101.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.3% |
| Copeland 003F | 1,082 | No figure | 9 | 100.0% |
| Copeland 003G | 1,341 | 15.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.2% |
| Copeland 005A | 1,436 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.6% |
| Copeland 005B | 1,060 | 52.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.0% |
| Copeland 005C | 1,403 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Copeland 005D | 1,453 | 91.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Copeland 005E | 1,390 | 68.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Copeland 005F | 1,577 | 179.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Copeland 005G | 1,506 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.7% |
Your MP
- Josh MacAlisterLabourMP for Whitehaven and Workington
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 Whitehaven1
Middle areas in Whitehaven3
Towns near Whitehaven3
Whitehaven in brief
Whitehaven is a town in Cumberland, North West.
About 23,438 people lived in Whitehaven in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £160,000 in 2025 across 425 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 97.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Whitehaven was £160,000 in 2025.
Whitehaven had 22,952 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Whitehaven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whitehaven, 92.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.