Flimby

Flimby is covered by postcode district CA15. It is in the Cumberland council area, England.

Typical price £90,000 Homes sold in Flimby, last 12 months. ▲ 1.7% on the year before Gigabit broadband 57 of 61 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 26 of 61 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 168 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Flimby, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Flimby, by flood risk Of the 61 postcodes in Flimby that ONS places, 12 have a home or business at high risk, 7 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 35 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 10 postcodes at high or medium risk. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Flimby. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A596 CA15 8PF: not on the flood risk listCA15 8PH: not on the flood risk listCA15 8PN: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QB: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QD: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QF: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QP: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QS: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QT: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QU: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QX: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QY: not on the flood risk listCA15 8QZ: not on the flood risk listCA15 8RA: not on the flood risk listCA15 8RB: not on the flood risk listCA15 8RD: not on the flood risk listCA15 8RE: not on the flood risk listCA15 8RF: not on the flood risk listCA15 8RG: not on the flood risk listCA15 8RH: not on the flood risk listCA15 8RJ: not on the flood risk listCA15 8RQ: not on the flood risk listCA15 8SX: not on the flood risk listCA15 8SY: not on the flood risk listCA15 8SZ: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TA: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TB: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TD: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TF: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TG: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TH: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TJ: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TL: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TN: not on the flood risk listCA15 8TQ: not on the flood risk listCA15 8PD: low flood risk at worstCA15 8PR: low flood risk at worstCA15 8PS: low flood risk at worstCA15 8PW: low flood risk at worstCA15 8QE: low flood risk at worstCA15 8QQ: low flood risk at worstCA15 8PJ: medium flood risk at worstCA15 8PL: medium flood risk at worstCA15 8QG: medium flood risk at worstCA15 8QW: medium flood risk at worstCA15 8RL: medium flood risk at worstCA15 8RN: medium flood risk at worstCA15 8RW: medium flood risk at worstCA15 8PB: high flood riskCA15 8PE: high flood riskCA15 8PG: high flood riskCA15 8PP: high flood riskCA15 8PQ: high flood riskCA15 8PT: high flood riskCA15 8QA: high flood riskCA15 8QH: high flood riskCA15 8QJ: high flood riskCA15 8QL: high flood riskCA15 8QN: high flood riskCA15 8RP: high flood risk Flimby 10 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to CA15 8QN, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk10 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Flimby, by flood risk Of the 61 postcodes in Flimby that ONS places, 12 have a home or business at high risk, 7 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 35 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 10 postcodes at high or medium risk. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Flimby. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A596 Flimby 10 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to CA15 8QN, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk10 postcodes at high or medium risk
  • A home or business at high risk: 12
  • At medium risk at worst: 7
  • At low risk at worst: 7
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 35
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 61 postcodes in Flimby that ONS places, 12 have a home or business at high risk, 7 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 35 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 54.6887, longitude -3.5172. 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 high risk

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

CA15 8QN37 at high riskCA15 8PB22 at high riskCA15 8PP15 at high riskCA15 8PG14 at high riskCA15 8RP12 at high riskCA15 8QH9 at high riskCA15 8QL6 at high riskCA15 8QJ5 at high riskCA15 8PE2 at high riskCA15 8QA2 at high riskCA15 8PQ1 at high riskCA15 8PT1 at high risk

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

CA15 8PA

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 10 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. CA15 8QN, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Flimby?

Homes sold for a typical £90,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.7% on the 12 months before. At 57 of the 61 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 168 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 26 of its 61 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Maryport Health Services, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Flimby, 250 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 Flimby?

Homes in Flimby sold for a typical £90,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 21 sales, up 1.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£90,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£88,500
12 months to August 2026
£90,000

▲ up 1.7% on the 12 months before

Detached 1 sale, too few to price
Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
Terraced£89,950 17 sales

Across the whole CA15 district, Flimby's main postcode district: a typical £155,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Flimby: 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 Flimby?

None of the 61 postcodes now in use in Flimby came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 19 homes sold in Flimby were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CA15 district, 8%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn FlimbyAcross the CA15 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 21 (0%) 0 of 199 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 19 (0%) 21 of 249 (8%)

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 Flimby?

Ofcom reports on 61 of the 61 postcodes in Flimby. At 57 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit57 of 61
Postcodes where every home can get superfast60 of 61

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 Flimby at risk of flooding?

26 of the 61 postcodes in Flimby 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 168 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 26 of 61 postcodes High: 126Medium: 42Low: 108

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 Flimby?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Flimby. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. 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 Flimby?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Flimby is Flimby Rail Station, 250 m away in a straight line.

  • Flimby Rail Station Railway station 250 mWalk
  • Maryport Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
  • Workington Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive

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 Flimby?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Flimby. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. 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 Flimby safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 137 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Flimby 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. 9 September 2025
  2. 15 October 2025
  3. 9 November 2025
  4. 15 December 2025
  5. 13 January 2026
  6. 9 February 2026
  7. 10 March 2026
  8. 10 April 2026
  9. 10 May 2026
  10. 10 June 2026
  11. 17 July 2026
  12. 10 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences71 reports
Criminal damage and arson23 reports
Public order14 reports
Vehicle crime9 reports
Anti-social behaviour6 reports
Other theft3 reports
Bicycle theft3 reports
Drugs3 reports

Also: other crime 3, burglary 1, theft from the person 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 Flimby?

Council
Cumberland
Parliamentary constituency
Whitehaven and Workington
Police force area
Cumbria
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Josh MacAlister (Labour)

All 61 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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Flimby postcodes

61 postcodes in use in Flimby, by district:

CA15 postcode district,61 postcodes

That district is in the CA postcode area.

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Places near Flimby

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Flimby's £90,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Maryport3.0 km, £140,000Seaton, Cumberland3.2 km, £200,000Great Broughton and Little Broughton5.7 km, £199,500Workington6.4 km, £135,000Distington9.9 km, £119,975Cockermouth10.3 km, £265,000Aspatria14.9 km, £147,500Frizington16.5 km, £98,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Flimby

What is it like to live in Flimby?
Homes sold for a typical £90,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.7% on the 12 months before. At 57 of the 61 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 168 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 26 of its 61 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Maryport Health Services, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Flimby, 250 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 Flimby?
Flimby is covered by postcode district CA15, across 61 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Flimby in?
Flimby is in the Cumberland council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Flimby?
Flimby is in the Whitehaven and Workington parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Josh MacAlister (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Flimby?
Homes in Flimby sold for a typical £90,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 21 sales, up 1.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Flimby?
In Flimby, primary schools at its postcodes include Flimby Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Netherhall School, 3.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Flimby have a railway station?
Yes: Flimby is 250 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Flimby, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Flimby?
Ofcom reports on 61 of the 61 postcodes in Flimby. At 57 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Flimby at risk of flooding?
26 of the 61 postcodes in Flimby 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 168 homes and businesses 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 Flimby?
None of the 61 postcodes now in use in Flimby came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 19 homes sold in Flimby were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CA15 district, 8%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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