Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 1 secondary schools. Appletree School is the nearest published school at 835 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA8 0JQ
Kendal South · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Kendal South
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- Postcode district
- LA8
- Postcode sector
- LA8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA8 0JQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2005
- Terminated
- 1 January 2005
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA8
- Postcode sector
- LA8 0
- Latitude
- 54.286684
- Longitude
- -2.734870
- British National Grid easting
- 352,258
- British National Grid northing
- 488,143
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Kendal South · E05014234
- Parish or community
- E04002635
- Westminster constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale · E14001580
- Output area
- E00098003
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 010D · E01019383
- Middle layer super output area
- South Lakeland 010 · E02004024
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 LA8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 835 m
Appletree School
Other independent special school
- 1.2 km
St Mark's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.3 km
Crosscrake CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 56
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 25
- Other theft 6
- Public order 6
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA8 0 residents
- 2,912
Age bands in LA8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 29%
299 residents
210 residents
389 residents
761 residents
678 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
THE JAMES COCHRANE PRACT.
BURTON ROAD, KENDAL, LA9 7HR
ODS code A82026
2.9 km
CAPTAIN FRENCH SURGERY
THE GILLINGGATE CENTRE, GILLINGGATE, KENDAL, LA9 4JE
ODS code A82025
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 1.4 miles
Oxenholme Lake District Rail Station
RLY · Oxenholme
- 3.1 miles
Kendal Rail Station
RLY · Kendal
- 4.9 miles
Burneside (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Burneside
- 6.9 miles
Gait Barrows
BCT · Leighton Beck Bridge
- 7.7 miles
Triangle
BCT · Yealand Redmayne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 010D, 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
28,254 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
56 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 25 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.