Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness is covered by postcode districts LA13, LA14, LA15 and LA16. It is in the Westmorland and Furness council area, England.
Every postcode in Barrow-in-Furness, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 74
- At medium risk at worst: 8
- At low risk at worst: 48
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,476
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 1,606 postcodes in Barrow-in-Furness that ONS places, 74 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 48 are at low risk at worst and 1,476 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.1181, longitude -3.2235. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
74 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 40 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LA13 0DP, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LA13 0FB, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LA14 3YF, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Barrow-in-Furness?
Homes sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,334 of the 1,568 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 864 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 130 of its 1,606 postcodes. It has 23 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Barrow-in-Furness, 200 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Barrow-in-Furness?
Homes in Barrow-in-Furness sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 755 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £158,000 from 887 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £322,750 92 sales
- Semi-detached £216,000 232 sales
- Terraced £125,000 419 sales
- Flat or maisonette £79,975 12 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole LA14 district, Barrow-in-Furness's main postcode district: a typical £147,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Barrow-in-Furness: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Barrow-in-Furness?
32 of the 1,606 postcodes now in use in Barrow-in-Furness came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 17 of the 887 homes sold in Barrow-in-Furness were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LA14 district, 2%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Barrow-in-Furness | Across the LA14 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 4 of 755 (Under 1%) | 2 of 502 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 17 of 887 (2%) | 10 of 592 (2%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Barrow-in-Furness?
Ofcom reports on 1,568 of the 1,606 postcodes in Barrow-in-Furness. At 1,334 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Barrow-in-Furness at risk of flooding?
130 of the 1,606 postcodes in Barrow-in-Furness 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 864 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Barrow-in-Furness?
The open schools at the postcodes in Barrow-in-Furness (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- Ramsden Infant School300 m 80 pupils, 135 places
- Greengate Junior School650 m 161 pupils, 240 places
- Brisbane Park Infant School750 m 95 pupils, 162 places
- St James' CofE Junior School750 m 115 pupils, 240 places
- Parkside Academy800 m 272 pupils, 300 places
- St George's CofE School950 m 226 pupils, 260 places
- Victoria Infant and Nursery School950 m 228 pupils, 180 places
- Victoria Academy1.0 km 209 pupils, 220 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Barrow-in-Furness?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Barrow-in-Furness is Barrow-in-Furness Rail Station, 200 m away in a straight line.
- Barrow-in-Furness Rail Station Railway station 200 mWalk
- Roose Rail Station Railway station 1.9 kmCycle
- Dalton Rail Station Railway station 5.0 kmCycle
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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Barrow-in-Furness?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Barrow-in-Furness, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Norwood Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report March 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01229 402525 150 mWalk
- The Family Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01229 402900 400 mWalk
- Duke Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01229 820068 850 mWalk
- Abbey Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2023 · Phone 01229 821599 900 mWalk
- Atkinson Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2024 · Phone 01229 822205 900 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Barrow-in-Furness safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 4,454 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Barrow-in-Furness 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
- 410 September 2025
- 343 October 2025
- 357 November 2025
- 390 December 2025
- 374 January 2026
- 253 February 2026
- 369 March 2026
- 361 April 2026
- 388 May 2026
- 426 June 2026
- 427 July 2026
- 356 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 85, possession of weapons 74, vehicle crime 68, bicycle theft 46, robbery 24, theft from the person 14.
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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Barrow-in-Furness?
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Parliamentary constituency
- Barrow and Furness
- Police force area
- Cumbria
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Michelle Scrogham (Labour)
All 1,606 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Barrow-in-Furness
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Westmorland and Furness about council tax Westmorland and Furness council
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Barrow-in-Furness
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Barrow-in-Furness postcodes
1,606 postcodes in use in Barrow-in-Furness, by district:
Those districts are all in the LA postcode area.
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Places near Barrow-in-Furness
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Barrow-in-Furness's £160,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Barrow-in-Furness
- What is the postcode for Barrow-in-Furness?
- Postcode districts LA13, LA14, LA15 and LA16, with 1,606 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Barrow-in-Furness in?
- Westmorland and Furness. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Barrow-in-Furness?
- Michelle Scrogham (Labour), for Barrow and Furness. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Barrow-in-Furness?
- A typical £160,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 755 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Barrow-in-Furness?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Ramsden Infant School, Greengate Junior School and Brisbane Park Infant School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Furness Academy, Moorfield Learning Centre and St Bernards Catholic High School, Barrow. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Barrow-in-Furness have a railway station?
- Yes: Barrow-in-Furness station, 200 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Barrow-in-Furness?
- Ofcom reports on 1,568 of the 1,606 postcodes in Barrow-in-Furness. At 1,334 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Barrow-in-Furness at risk of flooding?
- 130 of the 1,606 postcodes in Barrow-in-Furness 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 864 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Barrow-in-Furness?
- 32 of the 1,606 postcodes now in use in Barrow-in-Furness came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 17 of the 887 homes sold in Barrow-in-Furness were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LA14 district, 2%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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