Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Roose School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA12 0RB
Low Furness · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Low Furness
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness
- Postcode district
- LA12
- Postcode sector
- LA12 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA12 0RB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA12
- Postcode sector
- LA12 0
- Latitude
- 54.106970
- Longitude
- -3.152742
- British National Grid easting
- 324,729
- British National Grid northing
- 468,512
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Low Furness · E05014239
- Parish or community
- E04002584
- Westminster constituency
- Barrow and Furness · E14001076
- Output area
- E00097974
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 014C · E01019380
- Middle layer super output area
- South Lakeland 014 · E02004028
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 LA12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.4 km
Roose School
Community school
- 2.8 km
Yarlside Academy
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Cambridge Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Other crime 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- LA12 0 residents
- 6,066
3 female, 3 male
Age bands in LA12 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.6%
843 residents
517 residents
1,229 residents
1,903 residents
1,549 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA12 0 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
6
within 5 km
BRIDGEGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINCHESTER STREET, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA13 9SH
ODS code A82009
3.8 km
ABBEY ROAD SURGERY
DUKE STREET, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA14 2LB
ODS code A82010
4.7 km
ATKINSON HEALTH CENTRE
DUKE STREET, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA14 2LB
ODS code A82062
4.7 km
RISEDALE SURGERY
DUKE STREET, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA14 2LB
ODS code A82072
4.7 km
DUKE STREET SURGERY
4 DUKE STREET, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA14 1LF
ODS code A82007
4.8 km
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
99 ABBEY ROAD, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA14 5ES
ODS code A82008
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.8 miles
Roose Rail Station
RLY · Roose
- 2.5 miles
Roa Island Ferry Landing
FER · Roa Island
- 2.5 miles
Roa Island Ferry Landing
FBT · Roa Island
- 3.0 miles
Piel Island Ferry Landing
FBT · Piel Island
- 3.1 miles
Piel Island Ferry Landing
FER · Piel Island
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 014C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,208 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Recorded crime
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.