Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Askam Village School is the nearest published school at 533 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA16 7BF
Dalton North · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Askam-In-Furness
- Ward
- Dalton North
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness
- Postcode district
- LA16
- Postcode sector
- LA16 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA16 7BF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 February 2012
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA16
- Postcode sector
- LA16 7
- Latitude
- 54.189021
- Longitude
- -3.209510
- British National Grid easting
- 321,174
- British National Grid northing
- 477,703
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
- E04002442
- Westminster constituency
- Barrow and Furness · E14001076
- Output area
- E00096762
- Lower layer super output area
- Barrow-in-Furness 001B · E01019145
- 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 LA16
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Coombe View, Marsh Street, Askam-In-Furness, LA16 7BF | 22 August 2011 | £155,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 533 m
Askam Village School
Foundation school
- 1.2 km
Ireleth St Peter's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.7 km
Dowdales School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 107
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 64
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Public order 8
- Other crime 7
- Anti social behaviour 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA16 7 residents
- 3,248
Age bands in LA16 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
458 residents
322 residents
697 residents
966 residents
729 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
DUDDON VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASKAM SURGERY, 2 PARKLANDS DRIVE, ASKAM-IN-FURNESS, LA16 7JP
ODS code A82651
598 m
DALTON SURGERY
92 MARKET STREET, DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LA15 8AB
ODS code A82039
4.2 km
WATERLOO HOUSE SURGERY
MILLOM COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, LAPSTONE ROAD, MILLOM, LA18 4BY
ODS code A82033
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Askam Rail Station
RLY · Askam-in-Furness
- 2.7 miles
Dalton Rail Station
RLY · Dalton-in-Furness
- 2.9 miles
Millom Rail Station
RLY · Millom
- 3.2 miles
Kirkby-in-Furness Rail Station
RLY · Kirkby in Furness
- 4.1 miles
Green Road Rail Station
RLY · The Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barrow-in-Furness 001B, 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
19,777 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
107 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 64 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.