Vulcans Lane, Workington house prices are built from 142 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 6 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £76,650. Across the 13 years from 2010 to 2023 the median moved +40.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.8%.
Median price paid
£76,650
Change in cash, 2010–2023
+40.7%
Change in real terms
-4.8%
Median per m²
£662
HM Land Registry142 sales57 with floor areaLatest sale 6 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Vulcans Lane, Workington prices moved
The chart tracks the median Vulcans Lane, Workington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2023. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £31,000 | £68,835 |
| 2000s | 6 | £76,250 | £138,905 |
| 2010s | 3 | £88,500 | £124,785 |
| 2020s | 3 | £93,000 | £95,022 |
The highest yearly median on record for Vulcans Lane, Workington is £135,000 in 2019; the lowest is £31,000 in 1997. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £31,000 to £119,625.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £65,729, so the real change over the whole record is +96.6% — about +2.63% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +40.7% in cash against -4.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 6 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £115,000 | £115,000 |
| 136 | 16 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £137,000 | £137,000 |
| 16 | 16 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £95,000 | £97,065 |
| 41 | 24 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £121,000 | £123,630 |
| 7 | 19 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| 167 | 13 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £80,000 | £84,179 |
| 30 | 15 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £81,000 | £87,517 |
| 209 | 3 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £110,000 | £118,851 |
| 165 | 12 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £129,250 | £139,649 |
| 177 | 30 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £138,000 | £149,103 |
| 45 | 12 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £87,500 | £94,540 |
| 132 | 31 May 2023 | Terraced | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| 43 | 8 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £90,000 | £104,273 |
| 23 | 16 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £70,000 | £81,101 |
| 71 | 10 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £90,000 | £104,273 |
| 132 | 20 May 2022 | Terraced | £75,000 | £86,894 |
| 69 | 3 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £90,000 | £104,273 |
| 5 | 4 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £52,000 | £60,247 |
| 19 | 15 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £91,500 | £115,605 |
| 159 | 24 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £156,000 | £197,097 |
| 177 | 30 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £130,000 | £164,247 |
| 209 | 26 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £95,000 | £120,027 |
| 16 | 2 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £63,000 | £79,597 |
| 18 | 31 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £58,000 | £73,280 |
| 71 | 5 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £65,000 | £82,124 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Vulcans Lane, Workington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Vulcans Lane | £104,000 (2007) | £115,000 (2026) | +0.5% | -2.4% |
| 136 Vulcans Lane | £35,000 (1996) | £137,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 16 Vulcans Lane | £76,300 (2007) | £95,000 (2025) | +1.2% | -1.7% |
| 41 Vulcans Lane | £85,000 (2005) | £121,000 (2025) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 7 Vulcans Lane | £15,500 (1996) | £115,000 (2024) | +7.4% | +4.7% |
| 30 Vulcans Lane | £32,000 (1995) | £81,000 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| 209 Vulcans Lane | £95,000 (2021) | £110,000 (2023) | +7.6% | -0.5% |
| 165 Vulcans Lane | £95,000 (2007) | £129,250 (2023) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 177 Vulcans Lane | £42,000 (1999) | £138,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 45 Vulcans Lane | £42,000 (2001) | £87,500 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
| 132 Vulcans Lane | £44,000 (1999) | £140,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 43 Vulcans Lane | £83,000 (2010) | £90,000 (2022) | +0.7% | -2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Vulcans Lane, Workington is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 124 | 87.3% | £75,000 | £8,000 – £173,500 |
| Semi-detached | 15 | 10.6% | £85,000 | £15,000 – £195,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 1.4% | £13,000 | £13,000 – £65,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.7% | £225,000 | £225,000 – £225,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Vulcans Lane, Workington
81 of the sales on record are leasehold and 61 freehold — 57.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £70,000 and the median freehold sale £90,000 — a gap of +28.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 81 | 57.0% | £70,000 |
| Freehold | 61 | 43.0% | £90,000 |
A further 17 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Vulcans Lane, Workington
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cumberland, 37.3% of 137,831 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 656 | 0.5% |
| B | 13,329 | 9.7% |
| C | 37,364 | 27.1% |
| D | 54,653 | 39.7% |
| E | 20,980 | 15.2% |
| F | 7,759 | 5.6% |
| G | 3,090 | 2.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cumberland at £670 a month as of Jun 2026 — £499 for a one-bedroom home and £772 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £76,650 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.49% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CA14, 180 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 108 violent, 6 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 5 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Vulcans Lane, Workington
20 state and independent schools have a CA14 postcode: 16 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workington Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,234 |
| St Josephs Catholic High School, Workington | Secondary | Academy converter | 539 |
| Energy Coast UTC | Secondary | University technical college | 383 |
| Beckstone Primary School | Primary | Community school | 375 |
| Victoria Junior School | Primary | Community school | 311 |
| Ashfield Junior School | Primary | Community school | 254 |
| Victoria Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 251 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 209 |
| Seaton St. Paul's CofE Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 204 |
| Ashfield Infant & Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 200 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Workington Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Harrington Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Flimby Rail Station | Rail | 6.2 km |
| Parton Rail Station | Rail | 7.7 km |
Section 09
How Vulcans Lane, Workington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Vulcans Lane, Workington sits below that national figure — -51.3%.
Within Workington the street ranks 294 of 461 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £89,000 (-13.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £662 per square metre, across 57 of the 142 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £8,000 to £225,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Vulcans Lane, Workington sits in Cumberland, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cumberland at 4.2 times median local earnings of £42,808 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Main Road£105,000 median
- Moss Bay Road£53,000 median
- Harrington Road£69,725 median
- Meadow Vale£88,495 median
- Chaucer Road£93,250 median
- Church Road£72,000 median
- Corporation Road£85,000 median
- Moorlands Drive£90,500 median
- Victoria Road£62,000 median
- Cumberland Street£65,000 median
- John Street£70,000 median
- Gray Street£77,000 median
- Hazelgrove£147,500 median
- Hartington Street£69,250 median
- Frostoms Road£83,000 median
- Pica Cottages£41,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 136 Vulcans Lane7 sales
- 177 Vulcans Lane7 sales
- 16 Vulcans Lane5 sales
- 7 Vulcans Lane5 sales
- 45 Vulcans Lane5 sales
- 39 Vulcans Lane5 sales
- 8 Vulcans Lane5 sales
- 23 Vulcans Lane4 sales
- 37 Vulcans Lane4 sales
- 10 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 41 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 30 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 132 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 71 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 19 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 26 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 25 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 128 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 130 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 1 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 59 Vulcans Lane3 sales
- 209 Vulcans Lane2 sales
- 165 Vulcans Lane2 sales
- 43 Vulcans Lane2 sales
Back to Workington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Vulcans Lane, Workington?
The median price paid in Vulcans Lane, Workington across every sale on the register is £76,650. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Vulcans Lane, Workington?
142 sales are on record for Vulcans Lane, Workington, the most recent completing on 6 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Vulcans Lane, Workington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +40.7% between 2010 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Vulcans Lane, Workington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £135,000, set in 2019. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Vulcans Lane, Workington?
£662 per square metre, from the 57 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 6 Feb 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Vulcans Lane, Workington house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.