Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Levens CofE School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA8 8AU
Levens and Crooklands · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- Postcode district
- LA8
- Postcode sector
- LA8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA8 8AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA8
- Postcode sector
- LA8 8
- Latitude
- 54.297563
- Longitude
- -2.800490
- British National Grid easting
- 348,000
- British National Grid northing
- 489,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Levens and Crooklands · E05014238
- Parish or community
- E04002611
- Westminster constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale · E14001580
- Output area
- E00097999
- 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
- 14
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.6 km
Levens CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.9 km
Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, Kendal
Academy converter
- 3.9 km
Vicarage Park CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Vehicle crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA8 8 residents
- 2,747
Age bands in LA8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.2%
360 residents
210 residents
475 residents
926 residents
935 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
CAPTAIN FRENCH SURGERY
THE GILLINGGATE CENTRE, GILLINGGATE, KENDAL, LA9 4JE
ODS code A82025
4.4 km
THE JAMES COCHRANE PRACT.
BURTON ROAD, KENDAL, LA9 7HR
ODS code A82026
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 3.2 miles
Oxenholme Lake District Rail Station
RLY · Oxenholme
- 3.4 miles
Kendal Rail Station
RLY · Kendal
- 4.2 miles
Burneside (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Burneside
- 5.4 miles
Staveley Rail Station
RLY · Staveley
- 6.7 miles
Arnside Rail Station
RLY · Arnside
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
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Vehicle crime with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.