Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Croftlands Infant School is the nearest published school at 367 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA12 9WS
Ulverston · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ulverston
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness
- Postcode district
- LA12
- Postcode sector
- LA12 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA12 9WS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2004
- Terminated
- 1 August 2005
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA12
- Postcode sector
- LA12 9
- Latitude
- 54.185451
- Longitude
- -3.097216
- British National Grid easting
- 328,495
- British National Grid northing
- 477,186
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Ulverston · E05014246
- Parish or community
- E04002655
- Westminster constituency
- Barrow and Furness · E14001076
- Output area
- E00098068
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 014E · E01019393
- 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
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 367 m
Croftlands Infant School
Community school
- 367 m
Croftlands Junior School
Community school
- 380 m
Ulverston Victoria High School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 760
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 425
- Criminal damage and arson 86
- Public order 69
- Other theft 37
- Anti social behaviour 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA12 9 residents
- 7,167
Age bands in LA12 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.7%
1,044 residents
676 residents
1,549 residents
2,114 residents
2,062 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
ULVERSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
STANLEY STREET, ULVERSTON, LA12 7BT
ODS code A82068
1.5 km
ULVERSTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
ULVERSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY STREET, ULVERSTON, LA12 7BT
ODS code A82003
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Ulverston Rail Station
RLY · Ulverston
- 4.0 miles
Dalton Rail Station
RLY · Dalton-in-Furness
- 4.4 miles
Askam Rail Station
RLY · Askam-in-Furness
- 4.9 miles
Kirkby-in-Furness Rail Station
RLY · Kirkby in Furness
- 5.0 miles
Cark Rail Station
RLY · Cark
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 014E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,602 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
760 published events cover 12 months, averaging 63.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 425 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.