Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Seascale Primary School is the nearest published school at 918 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA20 1QF
Gosforth · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gosforth
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington
- Postcode district
- CA20
- Postcode sector
- CA20 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA20 1QF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA20
- Postcode sector
- CA20 1
- Latitude
- 54.394813
- Longitude
- -3.483764
- British National Grid easting
- 303,761
- British National Grid northing
- 500,940
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Gosforth · E05014190
- Parish or community
- E04002505
- Westminster constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington · E14001583
- Output area
- E00097564
- Lower layer super output area
- Copeland 007E · E01019303
- Middle layer super output area
- Copeland 007 · E02004006
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CA20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 918 m
Seascale Primary School
Community school
- 4.3 km
Gosforth CofE Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 100
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 43
- Other theft 22
- Public order 11
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Anti social behaviour 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CA20 1 residents
- 3,171
Age bands in CA20 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.4%
431 residents
221 residents
605 residents
946 residents
1,008 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
SEASCALE HEALTH CENTRE
GOSFORTH ROAD, SEASCALE, CA20 1PN
ODS code A82024
326 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Seascale Rail Station
RLY · Seascale
- 1.9 miles
Sellafield Rail Station
RLY · Sellafield
- 2.0 miles
Drigg Rail Station
RLY · Drigg
- 3.9 miles
Braystones Rail Station
RLY · Braystones
- 4.1 miles
Ravenglass Rail Station
RLY · Ravenglass
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Copeland 007E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,140 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
100 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 43 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.