Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 3 secondary schools. Dowdales School is the nearest published school at 559 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA15 8LH
Dalton South · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dalton-In-Furness
- Ward
- Dalton South
- 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 8LH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA15
- Postcode sector
- LA15 8
- Latitude
- 54.154451
- Longitude
- -3.187200
- British National Grid easting
- 322,565
- British National Grid northing
- 473,832
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Dalton South · E05014223
- Parish or community
- E04002443
- Westminster constituency
- Barrow and Furness · E14001076
- Output area
- E00096789
- Lower layer super output area
- Barrow-in-Furness 002B · E01019149
- Middle layer super output area
- Barrow-in-Furness 002 · E02003978
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
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Church Street, Dalton-In-Furness, LA15 8LH | 15 January 2021 | £135,000 |
| 9, Church Street, Dalton-In-Furness, LA15 8LH | 16 March 2018 | £120,000 |
| 7, Church Street, Dalton-In-Furness, LA15 8LH | 22 November 2017 | £129,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 3
- 559 m
Dowdales School
Community school
- 661 m
Dalton St Mary's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 731 m
Chapel Street Infants and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 555
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 244
- Criminal damage and arson 84
- Public order 67
- Anti social behaviour 39
- Other theft 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- LA15 8 residents
- 7,655
2 female, 3 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA15 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
DALTON SURGERY
92 MARKET STREET, DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LA15 8AB
ODS code A82039
510 m
DUDDON VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASKAM SURGERY, 2 PARKLANDS DRIVE, ASKAM-IN-FURNESS, LA16 7JP
ODS code A82651
3.6 km
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
99 ABBEY ROAD, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA14 5ES
ODS code A82008
4.6 km
BRIDGEGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINCHESTER STREET, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA13 9SH
ODS code A82009
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Dalton Rail Station
RLY · Dalton-in-Furness
- 2.5 miles
Askam Rail Station
RLY · Askam-in-Furness
- 2.7 miles
Roose Rail Station
RLY · Roose
- 2.9 miles
Barrow-in-Furness Rail Station
RLY · Barrow-in-Furness
- 4.4 miles
Ulverston Rail Station
RLY · Ulverston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barrow-in-Furness 002B, 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
19,414 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 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.
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
555 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 244 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.