Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 2 secondary schools. Monkwray Junior School is the nearest published school at 275 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA28 9FP
Kells and Sandwith · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Kells and Sandwith
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington
- Postcode district
- CA28
- Postcode sector
- CA28 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA28 9FP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA28
- Postcode sector
- CA28 9
- Latitude
- 54.537641
- Longitude
- -3.593833
- British National Grid easting
- 296,975
- British National Grid northing
- 516,987
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
- E00097505
- Lower layer super output area
- Copeland 005B · E01019292
- Middle layer super output area
- Copeland 005 · E02004004
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
- 18
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 2
- 275 m
Monkwray Junior School
Community school
- 366 m
Kells Infant School
Community school
- 494 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,593
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 810
- Public order 173
- Criminal damage and arson 166
- Anti social behaviour 119
- Other theft 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CA28 9 residents
- 7,785
Age bands in CA28 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
1,511 residents
810 residents
2,057 residents
1,930 residents
1,314 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
LOWTHER MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CASTLE MEADOWS, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7RG
ODS code A82041
956 m
MANSION HOUSE SURGERY
19-20 IRISH STREET, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 7BU
ODS code A82075
989 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
- 0.5 miles
Corkickle Rail Station
RLY · Corkickle
- 1.1 miles
Whitehaven Rail Station
RLY · Whitehaven
- 2.3 miles
Parton Rail Station
RLY · Parton
- 3.1 miles
St Bees Rail Station
RLY · St Bees
- 5.4 miles
Harrington Rail Station
RLY · Harrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Copeland 005B, 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
17,292 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,593 published events cover 12 months, averaging 132.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 810 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.