Property market
The five-year median is £240,000 from 1 recorded sale in CA28 7BA. 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 7BA
Kells and Sandwith · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Whitehaven
- Ward
- Kells and Sandwith
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington
- Postcode district
- CA28
- Postcode sector
- CA28 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA28 7BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA28
- Postcode sector
- CA28 7
- Latitude
- 54.546574
- Longitude
- -3.589064
- British National Grid easting
- 297,306
- British National Grid northing
- 517,974
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Kells and Sandwith · E05014197
- Parish or community
- E04012422
- Westminster constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington · E14001583
- Output area
- E00097447
- Lower layer super output area
- Copeland 002B · E01019280
- Middle layer super output area
- Copeland 002 · E02004001
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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 155 - 156, Queen Street, Whitehaven, CA28 7BA | 21 August 2021 | £240,000 |
| 150, Queen Street, Whitehaven, CA28 7BA | 20 April 2021 | £220,000 |
| 152, Queen Street, Whitehaven, CA28 7BA | 11 August 2006 | £143,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 519 m
St Begh's Catholic Junior School
Voluntary aided school
- 552 m
St James' CofE Infant and Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
- 665 m
St James' CofE Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,384
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 680
- Public order 155
- Criminal damage and arson 137
- Anti social behaviour 117
- Other theft 74
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CA28 7 residents
- 2,728
7 female, 9 male
Age bands in CA28 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.2%
185 residents
232 residents
628 residents
771 residents
750 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA28 7 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+
- 8.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 8.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 8.3%
- 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
2
within 5 km
MANSION HOUSE SURGERY
19-20 IRISH STREET, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7BU
ODS code A82075
81 m
LOWTHER MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CASTLE MEADOWS, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7RG
ODS code A82041
241 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Corkickle Rail Station
RLY · Corkickle
- 0.5 miles
Whitehaven Rail Station
RLY · Whitehaven
- 1.7 miles
Parton Rail Station
RLY · Parton
- 3.7 miles
St Bees Rail Station
RLY · St Bees
- 4.7 miles
Harrington Rail Station
RLY · Harrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Copeland 002B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,369 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
18 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. St Begh's Catholic Junior School is the nearest published school at 519 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,384 published events cover 12 months, averaging 115.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 680 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.