Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lowca Community School is the nearest published school at 113 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA28 6QL
Howgate · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Howgate
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington
- Postcode district
- CA28
- Postcode sector
- CA28 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA28 6QL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2002
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA28
- Postcode sector
- CA28 6
- Latitude
- 54.582486
- Longitude
- -3.575637
- British National Grid easting
- 298,264
- British National Grid northing
- 521,950
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Howgate · E05014196
- Parish or community
- E04002493
- Westminster constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington · E14001583
- Output area
- E00097396
- Lower layer super output area
- Copeland 001C · E01019270
- Middle layer super output area
- Copeland 001 · E02004000
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 CA28
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 113 m
Lowca Community School
Community school
- 1.4 km
St Bridget's CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.6 km
Moresby Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 57
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 35
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Public order 4
- Other crime 3
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CA28 6 residents
- 9,122
Age bands in CA28 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
1,397 residents
957 residents
1,992 residents
2,860 residents
2,035 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
DISTINGTON SURGERY
HINNINGS ROAD, DISTINGTON, WORKINGTON, CA14 5UR
ODS code A82023
2.6 km
MANSION HOUSE SURGERY
19-20 IRISH STREET, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7BU
ODS code A82075
4.2 km
LOWTHER MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CASTLE MEADOWS, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7RG
ODS code A82041
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Parton Rail Station
RLY · Parton
- 2.1 miles
Whitehaven Rail Station
RLY · Whitehaven
- 2.2 miles
Harrington Rail Station
RLY · Harrington
- 2.8 miles
Corkickle Rail Station
RLY · Corkickle
- 4.4 miles
Workington Rail Station
RLY · Workington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Copeland 001C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,724 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
57 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 35 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.