Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Whitehaven Academy is the nearest published school at 267 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA28 8QT
Hillcrest and Hensingham · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington
- Postcode district
- CA28
- Postcode sector
- CA28 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA28 8QT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1983
- Terminated
- 1 April 2007
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA28
- Postcode sector
- CA28 8
- Latitude
- 54.539655
- Longitude
- -3.561389
- British National Grid easting
- 299,079
- British National Grid northing
- 517,164
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Hillcrest and Hensingham · E05014194
- Parish or community
- E04012422
- Westminster constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington · E14001583
- Output area
- E00097471
- Lower layer super output area
- Copeland 003E · E01019286
- Middle layer super output area
- Copeland 003 · E02004002
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
- 24
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 267 m
The Whitehaven Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 378 m
Hensingham Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 429 m
St Benedict's Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 629
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 320
- Public order 69
- Criminal damage and arson 62
- Other theft 48
- Shoplifting 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CA28 8 residents
- 8,216
Age bands in CA28 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 21%
1,387 residents
833 residents
1,987 residents
2,248 residents
1,718 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
LOWTHER MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CASTLE MEADOWS, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7RG
ODS code A82041
1.7 km
MANSION HOUSE SURGERY
19-20 IRISH STREET, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7BU
ODS code A82075
1.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Corkickle Rail Station
RLY · Corkickle
- 1.4 miles
Whitehaven Rail Station
RLY · Whitehaven
- 2.3 miles
Parton Rail Station
RLY · Parton
- 3.5 miles
St Bees Rail Station
RLY · St Bees
- 5.1 miles
Harrington Rail Station
RLY · Harrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Copeland 003E, 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
17,086 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
629 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 320 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.