Property market
The five-year median is £182,500 from 2 recorded sales in CA28 6RU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cumberland is £172,036 in June 2026, up 6.9% year on year.
CA28 6RU
Howgate · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Whitehaven
- 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 6RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA28
- Postcode sector
- CA28 6
- Latitude
- 54.571838
- Longitude
- -3.555270
- British National Grid easting
- 299,554
- British National Grid northing
- 520,736
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Howgate · E05014196
- Parish or community
- E04010482
- Westminster constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington · E14001583
- Output area
- E00097530
- Lower layer super output area
- Copeland 001E · E01034075
- 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
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Tow Low Cottages, Low Moresby, Whitehaven, CA28 6RU | 12 February 2024 | £155,000 |
| Tabors Sound, Low Moresby, Whitehaven, CA28 6RU | 5 August 2022 | £210,000 |
| 1, Tow Low Cottages, Low Moresby, Whitehaven, CA28 6RU | 10 May 2019 | £131,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.1 km
Moresby Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
St Bridget's CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.8 km
Lowca Community School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 71
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 40
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Public order 7
- Other crime 4
- Other theft 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- CA28 6 residents
- 9,122
19 female, 18 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA28 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
DISTINGTON SURGERY
HINNINGS ROAD, DISTINGTON, WORKINGTON, CA14 5UR
ODS code A82023
2.8 km
MANSION HOUSE SURGERY
19-20 IRISH STREET, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7BU
ODS code A82075
3.6 km
LOWTHER MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CASTLE MEADOWS, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7RG
ODS code A82041
3.6 km
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Parton Rail Station
RLY · Parton
- 1.8 miles
Whitehaven Rail Station
RLY · Whitehaven
- 2.3 miles
Corkickle Rail Station
RLY · Corkickle
- 2.9 miles
Harrington Rail Station
RLY · Harrington
- 5.1 miles
Workington Rail Station
RLY · Workington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Copeland 001E, 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
17,031 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 2 secondary schools. Moresby Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
71 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 40 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.