Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 2 secondary schools. Underley Garden School is the nearest published school at 297 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA6 2HE
Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale
- Postcode district
- LA6
- Postcode sector
- LA6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA6 2HE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2014
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA6
- Postcode sector
- LA6 2
- Latitude
- 54.215447
- Longitude
- -2.591712
- British National Grid easting
- 361,511
- British National Grid northing
- 480,129
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale · E05014245
- Parish or community
- E04002621
- Westminster constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale · E14001372
- Output area
- E00097944
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 009B · E01019373
- Middle layer super output area
- South Lakeland 009 · E02004023
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 LA6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 2
- 297 m
Underley Garden School
Other independent special school
- 1.1 km
Casterton, Sedbergh Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 1.6 km
St Mary's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 92
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 52
- Public order 10
- Other theft 7
- Other crime 5
- Burglary 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA6 2 residents
- 4,524
Age bands in LA6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.8%
633 residents
357 residents
679 residents
1,375 residents
1,356 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
1
within 5 km
LUNESDALE SURGERY
KIRKBY LONSDALE, CARNFORTH, LA6 2HQ
ODS code A82030
1.8 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
- 2.5 miles
Loyne Park
BCT · Whittington
- 2.5 miles
Loyne Park
BCT · Whittington
- 2.5 miles
Main Street
BCT · Whittington
- 2.5 miles
Main Street
BCT · Whittington
- 2.6 miles
Post Office
BCT · Cowan Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 009B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,040 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
92 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 52 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.