[3] In July 2021 it was announced that, in April 2023, Cumbria would be divided into two unitary authorities.

It also had the lowest population density of any district in England and Wales, with a mean of 25 persons per square kilometre.

It was shown in a national detailed Land Use Survey by the Office for National Statistics in 2005 that Eden District had the second lowest proportion of land taken up by roads of any district in England: 0.8 per cent, fractionally greater than Craven in North Yorkshire, which also adjoins the Pennines.

[7] In that detailed survey (to the nearest square metre) it was shown that Eden District had the greatest proportion of green space (which excludes domestic gardens) of any district, 97.9 per cent, as shown by the following extract: Below is a list of the wards that formed Eden (with numbers of councillors): Eden included King George's Fields, named after King George V, at Appleby and Patterdale.

The council owned the Penrith Leisure Centre, which is run by a private company under contract.