Clifton
Village · 654 residents
55Good
Good · better than 2 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
- Affordability scores 82, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 38 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Food & drink scores 76, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 55% of the area
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Clifton
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Clifton a good place to live?
Clifton scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (82) and safety (78).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Clifton in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Clifton
Clifton reads as a scatter of stone houses and detached properties along quiet lanes, the sort of village where you notice the silence before you notice anything else. With a population under 700 and density nowhere near the regional average, this is a place built around space rather than footfall — no high street rush, no crowds, just fields and a handful of rooftops.
The numbers back up that sense of settledness: a median age in the early fifties, well above both the regional and national mid-forties, tells you this is a village of established households rather than young families finding their feet. Clifton Primary School serves the village itself, though its Ofsted rating isn't on record; Yanwath Primary, rated Good, sits close enough to be a realistic alternative for those weighing up schooling. There's no rail station woven into this part of the data, so this isn't a commuter-belt village in the conventional sense — it functions more as a destination than a through-point, somewhere you'd choose for the quiet rather than the travel times.
Property here is overwhelmingly detached and freehold — of the recent sales sampled, the majority were detached houses, all freehold, with a median price around £285,000. That's roughly 27% above the typical price across Westmorland and Furness, the parent authority, which puts Clifton toward the pricier end of an already firmly rural patch of the North West, though still some way under the steepest percentile bands you'd see in the wider national market. A for-sale board on one of these lanes is signalling permanence — buy here and you're likely staying a while, not flipping for a quick return.