Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Levens CofE School is the nearest published school at 274 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA8 8QG
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 8QG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA8
- Postcode sector
- LA8 8
- Latitude
- 54.268888
- Longitude
- -2.787650
- British National Grid easting
- 348,800
- British National Grid northing
- 486,200
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
- E04002624
- Westminster constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale · E14001580
- Output area
- E00097970
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 010C · E01019377
- 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
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 274 m
Levens CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.5 km
Crosscrake CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 4.2 km
Appletree School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 28
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Burglary 4
- Other theft 3
- Drugs 2
- Other crime 2
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
1
within 5 km straight-line
PARK VIEW SURGERY
HAVERFLATTS LANE, MILNTHORPE, LA7 7PS
ODS code P81113
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 3.6 miles
Oxenholme Lake District Rail Station
RLY · Oxenholme
- 4.8 miles
Kendal Rail Station
RLY · Kendal
- 4.9 miles
Arnside Rail Station
RLY · Arnside
- 5.3 miles
Gait Barrows
BCT · Leighton Beck Bridge
- 6.0 miles
Burneside (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Burneside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 010C, 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
28,901 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 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
28 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.