Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. Dowdales School is the nearest published school at 115 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA15 8AJ
Dalton North · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dalton North
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness
- Postcode district
- LA15
- Postcode sector
- LA15 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA15 8AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA15
- Postcode sector
- LA15 8
- Latitude
- 54.160144
- Longitude
- -3.184974
- British National Grid easting
- 322,721
- British National Grid northing
- 474,463
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Dalton North · E05014222
- Parish or community
- E04002443
- Westminster constituency
- Barrow and Furness · E14001076
- Output area
- E00096771
- Lower layer super output area
- Barrow-in-Furness 001D · E01019147
- Middle layer super output area
- Barrow-in-Furness 001 · E02003977
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 LA15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 115 m
Dowdales School
Community school
- 304 m
George Romney Junior School
Community school
- 472 m
Chapel Street Infants and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 509
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 225
- Criminal damage and arson 80
- Public order 57
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Other theft 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA15 8 residents
- 7,655
Age bands in LA15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.6%
1,108 residents
880 residents
1,750 residents
2,187 residents
1,631 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
DALTON SURGERY
92 MARKET STREET, DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LA15 8AB
ODS code A82039
578 m
DUDDON VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASKAM SURGERY, 2 PARKLANDS DRIVE, ASKAM-IN-FURNESS, LA16 7JP
ODS code A82651
3.1 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
- 0.5 miles
Dalton Rail Station
RLY · Dalton-in-Furness
- 2.1 miles
Askam Rail Station
RLY · Askam-in-Furness
- 3.1 miles
Roose Rail Station
RLY · Roose
- 3.3 miles
Barrow-in-Furness Rail Station
RLY · Barrow-in-Furness
- 4.1 miles
Ulverston Rail Station
RLY · Ulverston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barrow-in-Furness 001D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,125 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
509 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 225 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.