CA26 3UA

Cleator Moor East and Frizington · Cumberland · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Cleator Moor East and Frizington
Local authority: Cumberland
Constituency: Whitehaven and Workington
Postcode district: CA26
Postcode sector: CA26 3

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
CA26 3PH	235 m
CA26 3PQ	319 m
CA26 3PL	395 m
CA26 3PG	516 m
CA26 3PJ	562 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: CA26 3UA
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: CA
Postcode district: CA26
Postcode sector: CA26 3
Latitude: 54.549543
Longitude: -3.486364
British National Grid easting: 303,956
British National Grid northing: 518,159

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North West · E12000002
Local authority district: Cumberland · E06000063
Electoral ward: Cleator Moor East and Frizington · E05014179
Parish or community: E04010472
Westminster constituency: Whitehaven and Workington · E14001583
Output area: E00097432
Lower layer super output area: Copeland 004I · E01019278
Middle layer super output area: Copeland 004 · E02004003

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

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Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 13
Primary: 8
Secondary: 2

Frizington Nursery School

Local authority nursery school
593 m
Frizington Community Primary School

Community school
639 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school
947 m

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 183
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 95
Criminal damage and arson 25
Public order 22
Other crime 9
Other theft 9

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
CA26 3 residents: 3,483

Age bands in CA26 3

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 14.6%
Age 15 to 24: 9.9%
Age 25 to 44: 21.6%
Age 45 to 64: 31.1%
Age 65 and over: 22.8%

How to read these estimates

The standard postcode headcounts and the commissioned age table are separate ONS outputs. Small counts are disclosure-controlled, and totals can differ slightly between tables. Coverage is England and Wales only.

Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.

Fixed broadband coverage

Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.

Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+: 100%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 0%

Coverage is a modelled postcode-level snapshot, not a speed test or a guarantee for a named property. Check availability with providers before making a decision. Ofcom does not publish postcode-level full-fibre coverage in this release for commercial-confidentiality reasons.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Corkickle Rail Station

RLY · Corkickle
3.9 miles
Whitehaven Rail Station

RLY · Whitehaven
4.1 miles
Parton Rail Station

RLY · Parton
4.1 miles
Harrington Rail Station

RLY · Harrington
5.4 miles
St Bees Rail Station

RLY · St Bees
5.8 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Copeland 004I, 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

6 of 10

Overall England rank

17,684 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 6 of 10
Education and skills: 6 of 10
Health and disability: 3 of 10
Crime: 6 of 10
Housing and services: 3 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.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 0
Medium risk addresses: 0
Low risk addresses: 0
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.

Schools

Published establishments

13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Frizington Nursery School is the nearest published school at 593 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

Published police records

183 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 95 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.