CA11 8XB Westmorland and Furness

Live postcode, introduced May 2026. Ward: Penrith North. Region: North West.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

Council tax

What each band costs in Westmorland and Furness in 2026-27: Band D £2,508 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,672	£1,951	£2,229	£2,508	£3,065	£3,623	£4,180	£5,016

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (28% of about 750 homes).

A11%

B16%

C28%

D21%

E13%

F8%

G3%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Penrith (North Lakes) 716,000 journeys in 2024–25	1.7 km (1.1 miles)
	Langwathby 20,000 journeys in 2024–25	6.6 km (4.1 miles)
	Lazonby and Kirkoswald 19,000 journeys in 2024–25	8.9 km (5.6 miles)
Bus stops	2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pennyhill Park Fairhill	340 m
Bus or coach station	Bus Station (P) Penrith	1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Ferry terminal	Pooley Bridge Ullswater Ferry Landing	8.6 km (5.4 miles)
Car parks	Car Park	1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points	3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brunswick Square, Penrith	1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Newcastle International Airport NCL	79.6 km (49 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	Birbeck Medical Group	2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morrisons Pharmacy	1.4 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists	3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery	920 m (0.6 miles)
Hospital	Penrith Community Hospital	2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police station	Cumbria Police Headquarters	2.8 km (1.7 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	Castle Park 3.8 ha	1.7 km (1 mile)
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 790 m²	410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.4 ha	400 m (0.2 miles)
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,300 m²	470 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cockell House, a listed building (Grade II*), 860 m (0.5 miles) south. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the postcode's centre
Cockell House	Listed building, Grade II*	860 m (0.5 miles) south
The Giant's Thumb - Anglian high cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith	Scheduled monument	1.6 km (1 mile) south
The Giant's Grave - Two Anglian cross-shafts and four hogback stones in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith	Scheduled monument	1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Strickland's Pele Tower and Penrith Castle	Scheduled monument	1.7 km (1.1 miles) south

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the postcode's centre
Beacon Hill	Hill	1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Beacon Plantation	Wood	1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Maiden Hill	Hill	1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Kettle Hill	Hill	2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Stainton Island	Island	4.2 km (2.6 miles) south
Whins Pond	Lake or reservoir	4.5 km (2.8 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	3.8	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	4.7	20	5
Particles (PM10)	7.1	40	15

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

No addresses here are in the mapped area.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Westmorland and Furness: see them on the Westmorland and Furness page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 281 residents in 119 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

	Around this postcode	England
Median age	51	40
Children under 15	13%	17%
Aged 65 and over	25%	18%

Homes

	Around this postcode	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	74%	61%
Owned outright	50%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	under 1%	17%
Private rented	25%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this postcode	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	60%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	2%	6%
Retired (of adults)	30%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	under 1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	30%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	60%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	2%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	7%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	70%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	13%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this postcode	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	32%	34%
No qualifications	15%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	6%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	98%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	1%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.