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Distington market report CA14, Workington
The standing CA14 (Distington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 17,288 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CA14 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical CA14 (Workington) home changed hands for £170,000 in 2026 (median of 217 registered sales, up 38% on five years earlier), with the mean at £187,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,730 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 17,288 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CA14 is a postcode district covering Workington, Distington, Stainburn in Workington. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CA14 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.
Today's CA14 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CA14 is £170,000, taken from 217 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £187,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
CA14 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in CA14 have sold for about £1,730 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CA14 40% below the country at large.
A typical CA14 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 217 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 594 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 546 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 552 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 599 |
| 2021 | £123,000 | £155,734 | 635 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 499 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 581 |
| 2018 | £131,000 | £174,625 | 502 |
| 2017 | £126,000 | £171,851 | 521 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 500 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 579 |
| 2014 | £123,000 | £174,497 | 557 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 465 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 388 |
| 2011 | £107,000 | £161,529 | 395 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 414 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 328 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 347 |
| 2007 | £105,000 | £178,109 | 708 |
| 2006 | £92,800 | £161,089 | 706 |
| 2005 | £85,000 | £151,266 | 637 |
| 2004 | £66,000 | £119,869 | 745 |
| 2003 | £52,000 | £95,797 | 698 |
| 2002 | £44,100 | £82,974 | 739 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 617 |
| 2000 | £41,000 | £80,463 | 624 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 531 |
| 1998 | £38,500 | £77,715 | 545 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 555 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 544 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 420 |
In cash terms the typical CA14 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 106%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 6% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CA14 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 2005 (+28.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−12.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £275,000 against £55,500 for a flat, 5.0 times the price.
Median by property type, CA14
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £275,000 | 53 | 3,966 |
| Semi-detached | £187,000 | 75 | 5,129 |
| Terraced | £123,500 | 84 | 7,749 |
| Flats | £55,500 | 5 | 437 |
What CA14 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.3% | +3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.7% | +1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
CA14 recorded 452 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 684 sales a year before the financial crisis and 502 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around CA14
The local authority for CA14 is Cumberland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £170,000 median purchase price, a rent of £666 a month (£7,992 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
Asked and answered: CA14 (Distington)
Is CA14 (Distington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CA14 (Distington)?
Are property prices falling in CA14 (Distington)?
Are CA14 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in CA14 today
Everything above is what homes in CA14 sold for. The live side of the market holds 3 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 62% below the CA14 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 100% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CA area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CA14 ranks 2 of 28 in the CA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside CA14, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| CA14 5 | £156,000 | 26 |
How CA14 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CA19 | £336,200 | +3% |
| CA12 | £330,000 | +0% |
| CA21 | £328,600 | +43% |
| CA4 | £316,100 | +19% |
| CA5 | £288,800 | +12% |
| CA10 | £287,000 | +9% |
| CA9 | £276,500 | +35% |
| CA17 | £265,000 | +6% |
| CA13 | £260,500 | +6% |
| CA27 | £252,500 | +29% |
| CA16 | £243,800 | +8% |
| CA11 | £232,800 | +10% |
| CA8 | £225,000 | +2% |
| CA6 | £220,000 | +19% |
| CA18 | £220,000 | -3% |
| CA7 | £210,000 | +17% |
| CA3 | £206,000 | +12% |
| CA20 | £202,500 | +7% |
| CA14 (this report) | £170,000 | +38% |
| CA15 | £165,000 | +35% |
| CA28 | £163,500 | +18% |
| CA1 | £150,500 | +15% |
| CA2 | £150,000 | +22% |
| CA22 | £128,800 | -1% |
Before you sell in CA14: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CA14, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CA14's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CA14 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CA14.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CA14. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CA14 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.