Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. South Lakes Academy is the nearest published school at 154 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA9 4EF
Kendal Highgate · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Kendal Highgate
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- Postcode district
- LA9
- Postcode sector
- LA9 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA9 4EF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA9
- Postcode sector
- LA9 4
- Latitude
- 54.325756
- Longitude
- -2.748760
- British National Grid easting
- 351,400
- British National Grid northing
- 492,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Kendal Highgate · E05014232
- Parish or community
- E04002617
- Westminster constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale · E14001580
- Output area
- E00097884
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 004B · E01019363
- Middle layer super output area
- South Lakeland 004 · E02004018
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 LA9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 154 m
South Lakes Academy
Other independent special school
- 479 m
Ghyllside Primary School
Academy converter
- 536 m
Stramongate Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,815
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 845
- Public order 194
- Criminal damage and arson 173
- Shoplifting 121
- Anti social behaviour 112
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA9 4 residents
- 4,105
Age bands in LA9 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.9%
427 residents
397 residents
1,168 residents
1,187 residents
1,052 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
CAPTAIN FRENCH SURGERY
THE GILLINGGATE CENTRE, GILLINGGATE, KENDAL, LA9 4JE
ODS code A82025
258 m
STATION HOUSE SURGERY
STATION ROAD, KENDAL, LA9 6SA
ODS code A82027
909 m
THE JAMES COCHRANE PRACT.
BURTON ROAD, KENDAL, LA9 7HR
ODS code A82026
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Kendal Rail Station
RLY · Kendal
- 1.8 miles
Oxenholme Lake District Rail Station
RLY · Oxenholme
- 2.1 miles
Burneside (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Burneside
- 4.5 miles
Staveley Rail Station
RLY · Staveley
- 9.1 miles
Arnside Rail Station
RLY · Arnside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 004B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,483 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,815 published events cover 12 months, averaging 151.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 845 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.