CARTMEL PLACE, NN3 2AW House Prices & Local Information

NN3 2AW is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on Cartmel Place, 0.7km from Spinney Hill in Northampton. Administratively it sits within Headlands ward and the Northampton North constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, NN3 2AW is a mixed area of service workers, students and families in semi-detached housing. Work and footfall patterns mark this as a self-employed tradespeople in multicultural metro suburbs zone — ethnically mixed self-employed with no fixed place of work in construction, transport, and storage. The 33 average age reflects a thriving young professional community — a good mix of renters and first-time buyers, with strong employment rates. 48% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime is moderate at 50 incidents per 1,000 residents — broadly typical for this type of urban area. Property: With prices averaging £162k, this is one of the more affordable postcodes in the area, down 20.2% year-on-year. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for NN3 2AW are sourced from Output Area E00138235 (shared with 6 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.