Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Lakes School is the nearest published school at 791 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA23 1GZ
Windermere and Ambleside · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- Postcode district
- LA23
- Postcode sector
- LA23 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA23 1GZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA23
- Postcode sector
- LA23 1
- Latitude
- 54.385715
- Longitude
- -2.916155
- British National Grid easting
- 340,600
- British National Grid northing
- 499,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Windermere and Ambleside · E05014249
- Parish or community
- E04002661
- Westminster constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale · E14001580
- Output area
- E00098090
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 001D · E01019395
- Middle layer super output area
- South Lakeland 001 · E02004015
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 LA23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 791 m
The Lakes School
Community school
- 1.6 km
St Cuthberts Catholic Primary School, Windermere
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
St Martin & St Mary Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 304
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 129
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Other theft 28
- Public order 26
- Shoplifting 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA23 1 residents
- 2,191
Age bands in LA23 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 33%
242 residents
206 residents
433 residents
764 residents
811 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
ST. MARY'S SURGERY
AMBLESIDE ROAD, WINDERMERE, LA23 1BA
ODS code A82070
727 m
WINDERMERE HEALTH CENTRE
GOODLEY DALE, WINDERMERE, LA23 2EG
ODS code A82046
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Windermere Rail Station
RLY · Windermere
- 1.1 miles
Windermere Steam Boat Museum Ferry Terminal
FER · Bowness on Windermere
- 1.1 miles
Windermere Steam Boat Museum Ferry Terminal
FBT · Bowness on Windermere
- 1.6 miles
Bowness on Windermere Ferry Terminal
FBT · Bowness on Windermere
- 1.6 miles
Bowness on Windermere Ferry Terminal
FER · Bowness on Windermere
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,061 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
304 published events cover 12 months, averaging 25.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 129 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.