Allithwaite
Village · 834 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 32 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 79, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 35% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Allithwaite
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Allithwaite a good place to live?
Allithwaite scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81) and affordability (79).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Allithwaite in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Allithwaite
Allithwaite reads as low-density and settled: detached houses on generous plots, stone boundary walls, cars rather than buses in the driveways, and a median age well into the fifties that tells you this is not a place full of toddlers and takeaway apps. It sits out towards the Cartmel peninsula, and the streetscape feels more farmhouse-and-paddock than village-high-street — this is a place people move to once they've decided what they want, not a place people pass through.
The practical picture is mixed in an interesting way. There's no rail station or bus corridor of note here, and the connectivity and transport grades sit lower than everything else on the scorecard — this is a driving village, full stop. Schooling is thin on the ground too, with just the one setting inside Allithwaite itself, Allithwaite CofE Primary, though Cartmel CofE Primary rates as Good and Cartmel Priory serves as the local secondary option for those willing to run a car to and from it. Housing here is overwhelmingly detached and freehold — eleven of twelve recent sales were freehold, eight of twelve detached — and at a median of £425,000 that's noticeably above the regional norm; Westmorland and Furness as a whole sits nearer £225,000, so a board outside one of these houses is advertising space and permanence rather than an entry-level rung.
Day-to-day life leans outdoors rather than social. Green space is modest in raw hectares but present — seven separate patches dotted through the parish — and with no restaurants or named venues showing up in the data, this isn't a place you eat out in; it's a place you drive out from, to Cartmel or Grange, for that. What stands out most is safety: crime numbers are very low in absolute terms, and the safety grade sits at the top of the scale, comfortably ahead of the wider unitary authority's crime rate — though it's worth naming plainly that over half of the handful of recorded incidents were classed as violence and sexual offences, a single-category skew that's common in villages where any given crime type looks large against such a small base, and the trend itself is reading flat rather than worsening.