LA6 3AY

Bentham & Ingleton · North Yorkshire · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Carnforth
Ward: Bentham & Ingleton
Local authority: North Yorkshire
Constituency: Skipton and Ripon
Postcode district: LA6
Postcode sector: LA6 3

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
LA6 3AR	655 m
LA6 3FH	712 m
LA6 3JG	735 m
LA6 3JE	808 m
LA6 3AX	1.5 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: LA6 3AY
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: LA
Postcode district: LA6
Postcode sector: LA6 3
Latitude: 54.195372
Longitude: -2.406888
British National Grid easting: 373,551
British National Grid northing: 477,810

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
Local authority district: North Yorkshire · E06000065
Electoral ward: Bentham & Ingleton · E05014256
Parish or community: E04007098
Westminster constituency: Skipton and Ripon · E14001475
Output area: E00140340
Lower layer super output area: Craven 001D · E01027570
Middle layer super output area: Craven 001 · E02005742

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

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Property

At this postcode

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3 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
Middle Scales, Chapel Le Dale, Carnforth, LA6 3AY	30 March 2026	£797,000
Middle Scales, Chapel Le Dale, Carnforth, LA6 3AY	22 July 1997	£183,000
Low Scales, Chapel Le Dale, Carnforth, LA6 3AY	25 June 1997	£129,000

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 1
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Criminal damage and arson 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 14
Postcode households: 7
Residents per household: 2.0
LA6 3 residents: 3,034

Age bands in LA6 3

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 13.3%
Age 15 to 24: 7.8%
Age 25 to 44: 18.7%
Age 45 to 64: 30.4%
Age 65 and over: 29.9%

This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA6 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

How to read these estimates

The standard postcode headcounts and the commissioned age table are separate ONS outputs. Small counts are disclosure-controlled, and totals can differ slightly between tables. Coverage is England and Wales only.

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%

Coverage is a modelled postcode-level snapshot, not a speed test or a guarantee for a named property. Check availability with providers before making a decision. Ofcom does not publish postcode-level full-fibre coverage in this release for commercial-confidentiality reasons.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Hill Inn

BCT · Chapel-le-Dale
0.5 miles
Hill Inn

BCT · Chapel-le-Dale
0.5 miles
Ribblehead Station

BCT · Chapel-le-Dale
1.9 miles
Ribblehead Station

BCT · Chapel-le-Dale
1.9 miles
Ribblehead Rail Station

RSE · Chapel-le-Dale
2.0 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Craven 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

7 of 10

Overall England rank

21,041 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 8 of 10
Education and skills: 7 of 10
Health and disability: 10 of 10
Crime: 9 of 10
Housing and services: 3 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: 1
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

A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.

Property market

Recorded sales

The five-year median is £797,000 from 1 recorded sale in LA6 3AY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.

The latest UK House Price Index average for North Yorkshire is £270,569 in June 2026, up 3.1% year on year.

Recorded crime

Published police records

1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 1 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.