Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Kirkbie Kendal School is the nearest published school at 965 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA9 7FL
Kendal South · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Kendal
- Ward
- Kendal South
- 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 7FL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2015
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA9
- Postcode sector
- LA9 7
- Latitude
- 54.308773
- Longitude
- -2.741089
- British National Grid easting
- 351,879
- British National Grid northing
- 490,605
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Kendal South · E05014234
- Parish or community
- E04002635
- Westminster constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale · E14001580
- Output area
- E00098003
- 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
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Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Redwood Drive, Kendal, LA9 7FL | 20 January 2020 | £430,000 |
| 2, Redwood Drive, Kendal, LA9 7FL | 6 August 2019 | £425,000 |
| 4, Redwood Drive, Kendal, LA9 7FL | 5 August 2016 | £474,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 965 m
Kirkbie Kendal School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Heron Hill Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, Kendal
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 665
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 344
- Public order 75
- Criminal damage and arson 54
- Other theft 46
- Drugs 26
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- LA9 7 residents
- 10,561
10 female, 13 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA9 7 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 14.3%
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
THE JAMES COCHRANE PRACT.
BURTON ROAD, KENDAL, LA9 7HR
ODS code A82026
508 m
CAPTAIN FRENCH SURGERY
THE GILLINGGATE CENTRE, GILLINGGATE, KENDAL, LA9 4JE
ODS code A82025
1.7 km
STATION HOUSE SURGERY
STATION ROAD, KENDAL, LA9 6SA
ODS code A82027
2.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Oxenholme Lake District Rail Station
RLY · Oxenholme
- 1.6 miles
Kendal Rail Station
RLY · Kendal
- 3.4 miles
Burneside (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Burneside
- 5.6 miles
Staveley Rail Station
RLY · Staveley
- 8.1 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.
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
665 published events cover 12 months, averaging 55.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 344 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.