Workington
TownTown in Cumberland, North West.
Workington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Workington 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 Workington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Workington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Workington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Workington at a rate of 132.5 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, 293 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Workington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,313), other crime (543) and criminal damage and arson (293).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Workington was 134.9 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 Workington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Workington has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Workington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allerdale 008A | 1,134 | 570.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 88.6% |
| Allerdale 008B | 1,274 | 84.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| Allerdale 008C | 1,357 | 283.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.7% |
| Allerdale 009A | 1,872 | 114.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Allerdale 009B | 1,684 | 78.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Allerdale 009C | 1,676 | 138.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.4% |
| Allerdale 009D | 1,541 | 171.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.6% |
| Allerdale 009E | 1,838 | 211.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.8% |
| Allerdale 010A | 1,533 | 90.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Allerdale 010B | 1,736 | 60.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Allerdale 010C | 1,585 | 123.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Allerdale 010D | 1,353 | 46.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Allerdale 010E | 1,462 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.9% |
| Allerdale 011B | 2,064 | 39.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 80.8% |
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 Workington1
Middle areas in Workington2
Towns near Workington3
Workington in brief
Workington is a town in Cumberland, North West.
About 21,834 people lived in Workington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £135,000 in 2025 across 354 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 132.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Workington was £135,000 in 2025.
Workington had 21,276 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Workington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Workington, 94.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.