Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Kirkbie Kendal School is the nearest published school at 131 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA9 7EE
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA9 7EE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA9
- Postcode sector
- LA9 7
- Latitude
- 54.318615
- Longitude
- -2.740944
- British National Grid easting
- 351,900
- British National Grid northing
- 491,700
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
- E00179295
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 006H · E01034078
- Middle layer super output area
- South Lakeland 006 · E02004020
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
- 18
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 131 m
Kirkbie Kendal School
Academy converter
- 339 m
Heron Hill Primary School
Community school
- 402 m
Kendal College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,707
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 788
- Public order 202
- Criminal damage and arson 159
- Shoplifting 130
- Anti social behaviour 106
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA9 7 residents
- 10,561
Age bands in LA9 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
1,418 residents
934 residents
2,265 residents
3,067 residents
2,868 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
THE JAMES COCHRANE PRACT.
BURTON ROAD, KENDAL, LA9 7HR
ODS code A82026
703 m
CAPTAIN FRENCH SURGERY
THE GILLINGGATE CENTRE, GILLINGGATE, KENDAL, LA9 4JE
ODS code A82025
731 m
STATION HOUSE SURGERY
STATION ROAD, KENDAL, LA9 6SA
ODS code A82027
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Kendal Rail Station
RLY · Kendal
- 1.2 miles
Oxenholme Lake District Rail Station
RLY · Oxenholme
- 2.7 miles
Burneside (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Burneside
- 5.0 miles
Staveley Rail Station
RLY · Staveley
- 8.8 miles
Arnside Rail Station
RLY · Arnside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 006H, 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
17,341 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,707 published events cover 12 months, averaging 142.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 788 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.