Alston

Alston is covered by postcode district CA9. It is in the Westmorland and Furness council area, England.

Typical price £177,500 Homes sold in Alston, last 12 months. ▲ 15.6% on the year before Gigabit broadband 33 of 63 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at medium risk 2 of 63 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 1 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Alston, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Alston, by flood risk Of the 63 postcodes in Alston that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 61 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Alston. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A686 CA9 3HN: not on the flood risk listCA9 3HP: not on the flood risk listCA9 3HR: not on the flood risk listCA9 3HS: not on the flood risk listCA9 3HU: not on the flood risk listCA9 3HX: not on the flood risk listCA9 3HY: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JB: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JD: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JE: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JF: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JG: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JH: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JJ: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JL: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JQ: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JS: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JU: not on the flood risk listCA9 3JW: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QH: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QJ: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QL: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QN: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QP: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QR: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QS: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QT: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QU: not on the flood risk listCA9 3QW: not on the flood risk listCA9 3RE: not on the flood risk listCA9 3RF: not on the flood risk listCA9 3RL: not on the flood risk listCA9 3RN: not on the flood risk listCA9 3RW: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SE: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SF: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SG: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SH: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SJ: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SL: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SN: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SP: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SQ: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SR: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SS: not on the flood risk listCA9 3SW: not on the flood risk listCA9 3TG: not on the flood risk listCA9 3TH: not on the flood risk listCA9 3TJ: not on the flood risk listCA9 3TL: not on the flood risk listCA9 3TN: not on the flood risk listCA9 3TP: not on the flood risk listCA9 3TQ: not on the flood risk listCA9 3TR: not on the flood risk listCA9 3TW: not on the flood risk listCA9 3UA: not on the flood risk listCA9 3UB: not on the flood risk listCA9 3UD: not on the flood risk listCA9 3UE: not on the flood risk listCA9 3UG: not on the flood risk listCA9 3UX: not on the flood risk listCA9 3HZ: low flood risk at worstCA9 3JX: medium flood risk at worst Alston Map of every postcode in Alston, by flood risk Of the 63 postcodes in Alston that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 61 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Alston. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Alston
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 61

Of the 63 postcodes in Alston that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 61 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.8119, longitude -2.4380. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at medium risk at worst

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

CA9 3JX1 at medium risk

What is it like to live in Alston?

Homes sold for a typical £177,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 15.6% on the 12 months before. At 33 of the 63 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1 home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 63 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Alston, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Alston?

Homes in Alston sold for a typical £177,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 9 sales, up 15.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£177,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£153,500
12 months to August 2026
£177,500

▲ up 15.6% on the 12 months before

Detached 4 sales, too few to price
Semi-detached 1 sale, too few to price
Terraced 3 sales, too few to price
Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole CA9 district, Alston's main postcode district: a typical £230,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Alston: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Alston?

None of the 63 postcodes now in use in Alston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 14 homes sold in Alston were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CA9 district, 0%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn AlstonAcross the CA9 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 9 (0%) 0 of 27 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 14 (0%) 0 of 21 (0%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Alston?

Ofcom reports on 63 of the 63 postcodes in Alston. At 33 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit33 of 63
Postcodes where every home can get superfast60 of 63

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Alston at risk of flooding?

2 of the 63 postcodes in Alston have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2 of 63 postcodes Medium: 1Low: 7

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Alston?

The open schools at the postcodes in Alston. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Alston?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Alston is Alston Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.

  • Alston Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
  • Kirkhaugh Rail Station Railway station 4.3 kmCycle
  • Lintley Rail Station Railway station 5.6 kmDrive
  • Alston (South Tynedale Railway) Underground, metro or tram 400 mWalk

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Alston?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Alston. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Alston safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 106 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Alston over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 6 September 2025
  2. 9 October 2025
  3. 13 November 2025
  4. 10 December 2025
  5. 3 January 2026
  6. 9 February 2026
  7. 11 March 2026
  8. 10 April 2026
  9. 8 May 2026
  10. 12 June 2026
  11. 4 July 2026
  12. 11 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences62 reports
Public order12 reports
Shoplifting12 reports
Criminal damage and arson8 reports
Other theft3 reports
Burglary2 reports
Vehicle crime2 reports
Other crime2 reports

Also: anti-social behaviour 1, drugs 1, possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Alston?

Council
Westmorland and Furness
Parliamentary constituency
Penrith and Solway
Police force area
Cumbria
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Markus Campbell-Savours (Labour)

All 63 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Alston postcodes

63 postcodes in use in Alston, by district:

CA9 postcode district,63 postcodes

That district is in the CA postcode area.

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Places near Alston

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Alston's £177,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Haltwhistle17.7 km, £170,000Brampton23.9 km, £188,000Penrith25.9 km, £212,500Appleby-in-Westmorland26.3 km, £243,750Hexham27.7 km, £289,500Stanhope28.6 km, £171,000Corbridge32.6 km, £445,000Carlisle33.1 km, £155,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Alston

What is it like to live in Alston?
Homes sold for a typical £177,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 15.6% on the 12 months before. At 33 of the 63 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1 home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 63 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Alston, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Alston?
Alston is covered by postcode district CA9, across 63 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Alston in?
Alston is in the Westmorland and Furness council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Alston?
Alston is in the Penrith and Solway parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Markus Campbell-Savours (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Alston?
Homes in Alston sold for a typical £177,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 9 sales, up 15.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Alston?
In Alston, primary schools at its postcodes include Alston Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Samuel King's School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Alston have a railway station?
Yes: Alston is 400 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Alston, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Alston?
Ofcom reports on 63 of the 63 postcodes in Alston. At 33 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Alston at risk of flooding?
2 of the 63 postcodes in Alston have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Alston?
None of the 63 postcodes now in use in Alston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 14 homes sold in Alston were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CA9 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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