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Distington market report CA14 3, Workington
The CA14 3 (Distington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,471 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CA14 3 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CA14 3 (Workington) is £147,500, from 40 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier; the mean is £151,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,580 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,471 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CA14 3 is one sector of CA14 (Workington): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CA14 3 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.
The going rate for a home in CA14 3
The CA14 3 median stands at £147,500 for 2026, built from 40 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £151,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in CA14 3
A square metre of CA14 3 home has cost about £1,580 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CA14 3 48% below the national figure.
CA14 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £147,500 | £147,500 | 40 |
| 2025 | £135,000 | £138,228 | 132 |
| 2024 | £128,000 | £136,090 | 103 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 117 |
| 2022 | £135,000 | £158,303 | 158 |
| 2021 | £115,000 | £145,605 | 155 |
| 2020 | £110,000 | £142,727 | 105 |
| 2019 | £105,500 | £138,285 | 112 |
| 2018 | £102,500 | £136,634 | 104 |
| 2017 | £94,500 | £128,889 | 95 |
| 2016 | £88,000 | £123,113 | 89 |
| 2015 | £93,800 | £132,539 | 88 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 97 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 76 |
| 2012 | £86,000 | £126,581 | 71 |
| 2011 | £86,000 | £129,827 | 101 |
| 2010 | £98,000 | £153,689 | 84 |
| 2009 | £85,000 | £136,638 | 77 |
| 2008 | £85,000 | £139,333 | 75 |
| 2007 | £91,000 | £154,361 | 148 |
| 2006 | £86,300 | £149,806 | 152 |
| 2005 | £75,000 | £133,470 | 146 |
| 2004 | £60,000 | £108,972 | 155 |
| 2003 | £46,200 | £85,112 | 140 |
| 2002 | £37,000 | £69,615 | 147 |
| 2001 | £36,000 | £69,208 | 106 |
| 2000 | £35,000 | £68,688 | 125 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 100 |
| 1998 | £33,000 | £66,613 | 94 |
| 1997 | £33,000 | £67,676 | 110 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 99 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical CA14 3 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £147,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 112%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CA14 3 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 (+29.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CA14 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.3% | +6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in CA14 3
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in CA14 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 140 sales a year before the financial crisis and 110 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around CA14 3
CA14 3 falls under Cumberland, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £666 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £496 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,071, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £147,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. 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.
The shape of the CA14 3 market
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CA14 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within CA14, this sector trades 13% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
CA14 3 (Distington): the questions that come up
Is CA14 3 (Distington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CA14 3 (Distington)?
Are property prices falling in CA14 3 (Distington)?
Will CA14 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in CA14 now
Turning to what is actually available: 3 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CA14 district, not just CA14 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
100% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in CA: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CA area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CA14, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CA14 1 | £200,000 | 54 |
| CA14 2 | £113,000 | 44 |
| 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.
Selling in CA14 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CA14 3'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.
Estate agents working CA14 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CA14 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CA14 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CA14 3 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.