Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Cairn Education CIC is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA8 9AB
Upper Kent · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Kendal
- Ward
- Upper Kent
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- Postcode district
- LA8
- Postcode sector
- LA8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA8 9AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA8
- Postcode sector
- LA8 9
- Latitude
- 54.373572
- Longitude
- -2.779495
- British National Grid easting
- 349,460
- British National Grid northing
- 497,842
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Upper Kent · E05014247
- Parish or community
- E04002653
- Westminster constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale · E14001580
- Output area
- E00097774
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 003A · E01019346
- Middle layer super output area
- South Lakeland 003 · E02004017
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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hagg Foot Farm, Burneside, Kendal, LA8 9AB | 29 August 2003 | £412,000 |
| Mire Foot, Burneside, Kendal, LA8 9AB | 8 June 2000 | £240,000 |
| High Hundhowe, Burneside, Kendal, LA8 9AB | 21 November 1996 | £350,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.4 km
Cairn Education CIC
Other independent special school
- 2.5 km
St Oswald's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.7 km
Staveley CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Other crime 3
- Other theft 2
- Drugs 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 38
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- LA8 9 residents
- 3,258
21 female, 17 male
Age bands in LA8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28%
488 residents
318 residents
716 residents
1,136 residents
1,036 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA8 9 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
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+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 90%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 1.4 miles
Burneside (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Burneside
- 1.6 miles
Staveley Rail Station
RLY · Staveley
- 3.3 miles
Kendal Rail Station
RLY · Kendal
- 5.0 miles
Windermere Rail Station
RLY · Windermere
- 5.3 miles
Oxenholme Lake District Rail Station
RLY · Oxenholme
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 003A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,460 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
Recorded crime
12 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.