Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Storth CofE School is the nearest published school at 546 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA7 7HL
Kent Estuary · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Kent Estuary
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale
- Postcode district
- LA7
- Postcode sector
- LA7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA7 7HL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA7
- Postcode sector
- LA7 7
- Latitude
- 54.219509
- Longitude
- -2.804253
- British National Grid easting
- 347,656
- British National Grid northing
- 480,718
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Kent Estuary · E05014236
- Parish or community
- E04002588
- Westminster constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale · E14001372
- Output area
- E00097761
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 011C · E01019343
- Middle layer super output area
- South Lakeland 011 · E02004025
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 LA7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 546 m
Storth CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.3 km
Milnthorpe Primary School
Community school
- 2.5 km
SwitchED2
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Vehicle crime 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Burglary 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA7 7 residents
- 5,056
Age bands in LA7 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.5%
735 residents
546 residents
932 residents
1,652 residents
1,700 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
PARK VIEW SURGERY
HAVERFLATTS LANE, MILNTHORPE, LA7 7PS
ODS code P81113
2.3 km
Nearby transport
- 1.5 miles
Arnside Rail Station
RLY · Arnside
- 1.9 miles
Gait Barrows
BCT · Leighton Beck Bridge
- 3.0 miles
The Row
BCT · Silverdale
- 3.0 miles
The Row
BCT · Silverdale
- 3.2 miles
Cemetery
BCT · Silverdale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 011C, 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
25,088 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
14 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.