Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 4 secondary schools. University of Cumbria is the nearest published school at 200 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA3 8UF
Castle · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA3 8UF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA3
- Postcode sector
- CA3 8
- Latitude
- 54.893556
- Longitude
- -2.938267
- British National Grid easting
- 339,919
- British National Grid northing
- 555,827
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
- E00097071
- 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 CA3
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Church House, West Walls, Carlisle, CA3 8UF | 17 May 2019 | £149,000 |
| Resource Centre, West Walls, Carlisle, CA3 8UF | 17 May 2019 | £149,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 4
- 200 m
University of Cumbria
Higher education institutions
- 458 m
Progress Schools - Carlisle
Other independent special school
- 562 m
Trinity School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,030
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,059
- Shoplifting 639
- Public order 587
- Criminal damage and arson 408
- Drugs 303
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- CA3 8 residents
- 344
3 female, 1 male
Age bands in CA3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.4%
21 residents
33 residents
113 residents
69 residents
43 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA3 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 16.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 16.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 16.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
SPENCER ST SURGERY
10-12 SPENCER STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 1BP
ODS code A82018
480 m
CARLISLE CENTRAL PRACTICE
WARWICK ROAD SURGERY, 65 WARWICK ROAD, CARLISLE, CA1 1EB
ODS code A82015
627 m
WARWICK SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
GROSVENOR HOUSE, WARWICK SQUARE, CARLISLE, CA1 1LB
ODS code A82654
736 m
EDEN MEDICAL GROUP
PORT ROAD, CARLISLE, CA2 7AJ
ODS code A82020
890 m
CARLISLE HEALTHCARE
SOUTH CARLISLE, 1 LOCKE ROAD, DURRANHILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, CARLISLE, CA1 3UB
ODS code A82016
2.4 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Carlisle Rail Station
RLY · Carlisle
- 3.8 miles
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 4.3 miles
Wetheral Rail Station
RLY · Wetheral
- 8.5 miles
Park
BCT · Gretna
- 8.5 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,030 published events cover 12 months, averaging 419.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,059 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.