Is Ulverston a good place to live?

Ulverston has 11,219 residents, 49% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding. Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Ulverston postcode.

How many people live in Ulverston?

11,219 people live in Ulverston (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 9.6 km² — about 1,171 per km².

What are the schools like in Ulverston?

There are 7 schools inside Ulverston; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Sir John Barrow School, Church Walk CofE Primary School and Croftlands Infant School.

Ulverston is a town in Westmorland and Furness, North West, England, served by Ulverston railway station.

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Living in Ulverston

Ulverston is a town in Westmorland and Furness, North West, England. This guide describes it as one place — who lives there, what sits inside its boundary and how safe it is — from official UK data. For any single street, the NestScope area report covers every Ulverston postcode.

Ulverston is a town of 11,219 people at 1,171 per km², where 49% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 6 of its 6 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding.

Good schools
Mixed neighbourhoods
Railway station
Spacious
Fewer parks than most towns

11,219Ulverston population

1,171people per km²

49%live in England's better-off half

Which part of Ulverston?

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schools stations parks9.6 km² · ONS built-up area boundary

01 — What's in Ulverston

What's in Ulverston: schools, GPs, stations, parks and shops

Counted inside the town boundary. A school or station two streets past it belongs to the next place.

●Schools100% of inspected rated Good or Outstanding7

●GP practices · hospitals2 pharmacies, 4 dentists4 · 0

●Rail stations · bus stopsUlverston1 · 0

●Parks & playing fields8 ha — (·· ha), (·· ha), (·· ha)4

●Supermarkets10

●Libraries1

02 — Schools in Ulverston

Best-rated schools in Ulverston

1Sir John Barrow SchoolPrimaryOutstanding 2Church Walk CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryGood 3Croftlands Infant SchoolPrimaryGood 4Croftlands Junior SchoolPrimaryGood 5Sandside Lodge SchoolOtherGood

Ranked by Ofsted grade. All 7 schools → Schools in Ulverston

03 — Ulverston crime rate

Ulverston crime rate

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04 — Questions about Ulverston

Is Ulverston a good place to live?: Ulverston has 11,219 residents, 49% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding. Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Ulverston postcode.
How many people live in Ulverston?: 11,219 people live in Ulverston (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 9.6 km² — about 1,171 per km².
What are the schools like in Ulverston?: There are 7 schools inside Ulverston; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Sir John Barrow School, Church Walk CofE Primary School and Croftlands Infant School.
Where is Ulverston?: Ulverston is a town in Westmorland and Furness, North West, England, served by Ulverston railway station.

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This page is NestScope's guide to Ulverston as a whole town, built from the same official sources as the area reports: the ONS boundary of the built-up area, Census 2021, the English Indices of Deprivation, police.uk recorded crime and the Department for Education's school register. Counts are of what sits inside the boundary; crime is a three-month average. It is updated as those sources publish.

Sources — ONS built-up areas 2022, Output Area lookups and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0) · English Indices of Deprivation 2019, carried onto 2021 LSOAs · police.uk street-level crime, the town boundary passed as the query polygon · DfE GIAS + Ofsted, NHS ODS, NaPTAN, OS Open Greenspace, Geolytix, Arts Council — every point counted by which 2021 neighbourhood it falls in.