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Distington market report CA14 2, Workington
The standing CA14 2 (Distington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,614 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CA14 2 (Workington) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CA14 2 (Workington) sold for £113,000 in 2026, the median of 44 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier. The mean was £123,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,140 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,614 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like CA14 2 is a single group of streets within CA14 (Workington), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CA14 2 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What CA14 2 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for CA14 2 is £113,000, taken from 44 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £123,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in CA14 2
By floor space, homes in CA14 2 have sold for about £1,140 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CA14 2 trades 60% below the country as a whole.
A typical CA14 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £113,000 | £113,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £100,000 | £102,391 | 98 |
| 2024 | £92,000 | £97,815 | 95 |
| 2023 | £94,500 | £103,832 | 90 |
| 2022 | £91,000 | £106,708 | 111 |
| 2021 | £90,000 | £113,952 | 124 |
| 2020 | £90,000 | £116,777 | 63 |
| 2019 | £85,500 | £112,070 | 106 |
| 2018 | £74,500 | £99,310 | 88 |
| 2017 | £84,200 | £114,840 | 84 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 94 |
| 2015 | £75,000 | £105,975 | 97 |
| 2014 | £80,000 | £113,494 | 93 |
| 2013 | £88,000 | £126,623 | 95 |
| 2012 | £95,000 | £139,828 | 120 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 79 |
| 2010 | £86,000 | £134,870 | 109 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 88 |
| 2008 | £94,800 | £155,397 | 87 |
| 2007 | £97,000 | £164,539 | 191 |
| 2006 | £81,400 | £141,300 | 174 |
| 2005 | £72,000 | £128,131 | 149 |
| 2004 | £57,200 | £103,886 | 188 |
| 2003 | £41,000 | £75,532 | 182 |
| 2002 | £35,400 | £66,605 | 164 |
| 2001 | £32,000 | £61,518 | 121 |
| 2000 | £32,300 | £63,389 | 135 |
| 1999 | £30,900 | £61,582 | 106 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 126 |
| 1997 | £28,500 | £58,448 | 102 |
| 1996 | £27,500 | £57,996 | 115 |
| 1995 | £29,000 | £63,042 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical CA14 2 home went from £29,000 in 1995 to £113,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 79%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CA14 2 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+39.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−11.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +13.0% | +10.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.7% | −0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
CA14 2 recorded 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 163 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around CA14 2
CA14 2 falls under Cumberland, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £666 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £496 a month here against £1,071 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£666 a month is £7,992 a year, which against the £113,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market CA14 2 is
Only 44 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CA14 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the CA14 district median, CA14 2 sits 34% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: CA14 2 (Distington)
Is CA14 2 (Distington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CA14 2 (Distington)?
Are property prices falling in CA14 2 (Distington)?
Where do CA14 2 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CA14's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 3 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CA14 district, not just CA14 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
100% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CA14 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in CA
Real sold prices by size across the CA area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £220,000 | £300,000 (+36%) | £430,000 (+43%) | £523,000 (+22%) |
| Semi-detached | £142,000 | £155,000 (+9%) | £205,000 (+32%) | £265,000 (+29%) | £357,500 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £105,000 | £115,000 (+10%) | £132,500 (+15%) | £184,000 (+39%) | £255,000 (+39%) |
| Flat | £92,000 | £124,950 (+36%) | £165,500 (+32%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CA14
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CA14, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CA14 1 | £200,000 | 54 |
| CA14 3 | £147,500 | 40 |
| CA14 4 | £220,000 | 53 |
| CA14 5 | £156,000 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full CA14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CA14 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CA14 2? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CA14 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CA14 2.
Keep digging
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See every individual CA14 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.