Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 4 secondary schools. Caldew Lea School is the nearest published school at 378 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA2 5SY
Castle · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA2 5SY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2011
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA2
- Postcode sector
- CA2 5
- Latitude
- 54.895370
- Longitude
- -2.946542
- British National Grid easting
- 339,391
- British National Grid northing
- 556,036
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Castle · E05014178
- Parish or community
- E43000295
- Westminster constituency
- Carlisle · E14001152
- Output area
- E00097072
- Lower layer super output area
- Carlisle 006A · E01019204
- Middle layer super output area
- Carlisle 006 · E02003992
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CA2
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mini Car Sales, Gawthorpes Street, Carlisle, CA2 5SY | 20 November 2003 | £18,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 4
- 378 m
Caldew Lea School
Academy sponsor led
- 451 m
University of Cumbria
Higher education institutions
- 956 m
Progress Schools - Carlisle
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,539
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,872
- Public order 554
- Shoplifting 530
- Criminal damage and arson 376
- Drugs 278
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CA2 5 residents
- 6,748
Age bands in CA2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.3%
986 residents
1,035 residents
2,286 residents
1,996 residents
1,230 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
EDEN MEDICAL GROUP
PORT ROAD, CARLISLE, CA2 7AJ
ODS code A82020
379 m
SPENCER ST SURGERY
10-12 SPENCER STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 1BP
ODS code A82018
989 m
CARLISLE CENTRAL PRACTICE
WARWICK ROAD SURGERY, 65 WARWICK ROAD, CARLISLE, CA1 1EB
ODS code A82015
1.2 km
WARWICK SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
GROSVENOR HOUSE, WARWICK SQUARE, CARLISLE, CA1 1LB
ODS code A82654
1.3 km
CARLISLE HEALTHCARE
SOUTH CARLISLE, 1 LOCKE ROAD, DURRANHILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, CARLISLE, CA1 3UB
ODS code A82016
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Carlisle Rail Station
RLY · Carlisle
- 3.8 miles
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 4.6 miles
Wetheral Rail Station
RLY · Wetheral
- 8.2 miles
Park
BCT · Gretna
- 8.2 miles
Outlet
BCT · Gretna
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 006A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,691 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,539 published events cover 12 months, averaging 378.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,872 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.