Local market reports › CA area › CA14 › CA14 5
Distington market report CA14 5, Workington
The standing CA14 5 (Distington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,335 registered sales in CA14 5 (Workington) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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 5 (Workington) sold for £156,000 in 2026, the median of 26 registered sales, up 41% on five years earlier. The mean was £176,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,560 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,335 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 5 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 5 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 5 homes really sell for
Across 26 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CA14 5 home went for £156,000. The mean is £176,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
CA14 5 prices by floor area
Per square metre, CA14 5 homes have averaged around £1,560 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CA14 5 sits 45% below the national market.
A typical CA14 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £156,000 | £156,000 | 26 |
| 2025 | £149,000 | £152,563 | 78 |
| 2024 | £133,000 | £141,406 | 81 |
| 2023 | £130,600 | £143,498 | 72 |
| 2022 | £100,000 | £117,261 | 70 |
| 2021 | £110,500 | £139,907 | 98 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 61 |
| 2019 | £121,000 | £158,602 | 88 |
| 2018 | £122,500 | £163,295 | 87 |
| 2017 | £107,000 | £145,937 | 95 |
| 2016 | £110,500 | £154,591 | 84 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 125 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 106 |
| 2013 | £134,000 | £192,813 | 70 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 48 |
| 2011 | £82,500 | £124,543 | 40 |
| 2010 | £85,000 | £133,302 | 59 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 61 |
| 2008 | £83,000 | £136,055 | 54 |
| 2007 | £85,000 | £144,184 | 96 |
| 2006 | £76,000 | £131,926 | 85 |
| 2005 | £67,800 | £120,657 | 78 |
| 2004 | £52,500 | £95,350 | 113 |
| 2003 | £41,000 | £75,532 | 72 |
| 2002 | £37,000 | £69,615 | 93 |
| 2001 | £33,200 | £63,825 | 64 |
| 2000 | £33,000 | £64,763 | 68 |
| 1999 | £27,500 | £54,806 | 47 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 59 |
| 1997 | £28,800 | £59,063 | 46 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 62 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 49 |
In cash terms the typical CA14 5 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £156,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 139%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2013, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2013 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CA14 5 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 2023 (+30.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−11.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.7% | +2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.1% | +2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CA14 5
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 26 sales completed in CA14 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 84 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
What homes rent for around CA14 5
The local authority for CA14 5 is Cumberland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £156,000 median purchase price, a rent of £666 a month (£7,992 a year) works out at a 5.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the CA14 5 market
This is a thin market: 26 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the CA14 district median, CA14 5 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about CA14 5 (Distington)
How much did a house sell for in CA14 5 (Distington)?
Are property prices falling in CA14 5 (Distington)?
Is CA14 5 (Distington) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CA14 5 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 41% over five years in cash and up 12% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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 5: 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.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
What another bedroom costs in CA
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, CA area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 3 | £147,500 | 40 |
| CA14 4 | £220,000 | 53 |
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 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CA14 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CA14 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CA14 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working CA14 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CA14 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CA14 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CA14 5 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.