Upton Street Workington, Cumberland

6 addresses across 2 postcodes (CA14), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 300971.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2015 the median was £80,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Cumberland costs £2,511 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Workington, about 730 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Vulcan Park, is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 16 to 19 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 6 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is James Street Group Pract, about 210 m away.
  • People: About 220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 474 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20151£80,000£80,000£80,000
20021£37,500£37,500£37,500
20001£33,000£33,000£33,000
19991£27,500£27,500£27,500
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Jun 20151 CA14 2BJTerraced£80,000
31 May 20021 CA14 2BJTerraced£37,500
25 Oct 20001 CA14 2BJTerraced£33,000
23 Apr 19997 CA14 2BJTerraced£27,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 46 m². Most common: Flat (1). Built: 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,511 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,674£1,953£2,232£2,511£3,069£3,627£4,186£5,023

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (96% of about 1,210 homes).

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 street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 30 October 2026: Fibrus Networks GB Ltd, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 6 addresses are between 16 m and 19 m above sea level (18 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CA14 2BJ100%100%100%0%
CA14 2BQ100%0%0%0%

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 middle of the street, 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.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWorkington 230,000 journeys in 2024–25730 m (0.5 miles)
Harrington 36,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Flimby 17,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bus Station Annex Workington110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station (W) Workington80 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allerdale House Workington GeniePoint400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsGlasgow Prestwick Airport PIK116 km (72 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest James Street Group Pract210 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots50 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 14 Campbell Savours Way [Dental Practice]100 m
HospitalWorkington Community Hospital290 m
Police stationWorkington Police Station420 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 21-23 Murray Road Lloyds Bank30 m

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 middle of the street 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Vulcan Park 5.5 ha230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lonsdale Park 7.4 ha360 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 90 m²230 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.1 ha150 m
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,340 m²430 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John and Adjoining Community Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 310 m south-east. 40 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St John and Adjoining Community HallListed building, Grade II*310 m south-east
St Michael's HouseListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Workington HallListed building, Grade I520 m (0.3 miles) east
Workington Hall tower house and later medieval fortified houseScheduled monument540 m (0.3 miles) east
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) west
Workington HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Jane Pit, a 19th century coal mine adjacent to the Sports Ground, MossbayScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Burrow Walls Roman fortScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stainton HoleTidal water470 m (0.3 miles) north
Calva HillHill860 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Mill StreamLake or reservoir910 m (0.6 miles) east
Hawk HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
High WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Hazel GillValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-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 middle of the street. 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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.6205
Particles (PM10)7.34015

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).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5930
Under 5536

3 of the street's 6 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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 Cumberland: see them on the Cumberland page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11330 m No published inspection
St Josephs Catholic High School, Workington Roman CatholicSecondary11–16510 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michael's Nursery and Infant SchoolPrimary2–7540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Ashfield Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7710 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Victoria Junior SchoolPrimary7–11760 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Ashfield Junior SchoolPrimary7–11790 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Victoria Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7910 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Workington AcademySecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northside Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Workington Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Westfield Nursery and Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Greggs (Murray Road Workington) CA14 2ADRetailers - other40 m5 Very good4 Apr 2025
Mavi Brunch CA14 2ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Boots UK Ltd (Workington) CA14 2ABRetailers - other50 mExempt
Subway (Workington) CA14 2ADTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m5 Very good17 Oct 2025
Heron Frozen Foods CA14 2ADRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets70 mAwaiting inspection
Marian's CA14 2BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good2 Feb 2026
The Catch Fish and Chip Shop CA14 2BNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Vinnie's Bar CA14 2BEPub/bar/nightclub80 m4 Good25 Feb 2020
Domino's Pizza (Workington) CA14 3DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good7 Apr 2025
Holland & Barrett CA14 3ABRetailers - other90 m5 Very good24 Oct 2018
YAZ by NEAD CA14 3ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 mAwaiting inspection
New Peking Express CA14 2BBTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m4 Good15 Oct 2024
Andy's Newsagents CA14 2AYRetailers - other100 m4 Good28 Nov 2023
Egg Tea Fine CA14 2BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good25 Sep 2025
Carnegie Theatre & Bar CA14 2BDPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good28 Nov 2023

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

474 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences148
Anti-social behaviour83
Shoplifting75
Public order58
Criminal damage and arson33
Drugs23
Burglary19
Other theft19
Vehicle crime8
Other crime6
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (249); On or near Parking Area (61); On or near Murray Road (44); On or near Finkle Street (24); On or near B5297 (15).

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 street's postcodes are in: 219 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 streetEngland
Median age4440
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented32%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: Cumberland Council: Highway improvement works, 5 January 2026 to 11 July 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: Fibrus Networks GB Ltd: Utility asset works, 29 October 2026 to 3 November 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CA14 2BJ: 5 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • CA14 2BQ: 1 address of 7 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ritz Shopping Centre · Upton Street · Warwick Place · Murray Road · Central Way · Lismore Place · Finkle Street · Ivison Lane · Campbell Savours Way · Speedwell Lane · Pow Street · Oxford Street

All the streets in CA14 and across Cumberland.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.