Property market
The five-year median is £490,000 from 5 recorded sales in CA3 9BF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cumberland is £172,036 in June 2026, up 6.9% year on year.
CA3 9BF
Houghton and Irthington · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Carlisle
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle
- Postcode district
- CA3
- Postcode sector
- CA3 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA3 9BF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA3
- Postcode sector
- CA3 9
- Latitude
- 54.903677
- Longitude
- -2.915640
- British National Grid easting
- 341,385
- British National Grid northing
- 556,934
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Houghton and Irthington · E05014195
- Parish or community
- E04002474
- Westminster constituency
- Carlisle · E14001152
- Output area
- E00097252
- Lower layer super output area
- Carlisle 004C · E01019240
- Middle layer super output area
- Carlisle 004 · E02003990
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
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Rickerby Court, Rickerby, Carlisle, CA3 9BF | 30 January 2026 | £315,000 |
| 9, Rickerby Court, Rickerby, Carlisle, CA3 9BF | 31 March 2025 | £350,000 |
| 6, Rickerby Court, Rickerby, Carlisle, CA3 9BF | 28 November 2024 | £625,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.0 km
Richard Rose Central Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Trinity School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Stanwix School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,623
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 655
- Public order 213
- Shoplifting 186
- Criminal damage and arson 129
- Drugs 101
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- 13 female, 12 male
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- CA3 9 residents
- 7,705
Age bands in CA3 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- 1,099 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- 757 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- 1,627 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- 2,110 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 24.2%
- 1,790 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA3 9 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
CARLISLE CENTRAL PRACTICE
WARWICK ROAD SURGERY, 65 WARWICK ROAD, CARLISLE, CA1 1EB
ODS code A82015
1.4 km
WARWICK SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
GROSVENOR HOUSE, WARWICK SQUARE, CARLISLE, CA1 1LB
ODS code A82654
1.4 km
SPENCER ST SURGERY
10-12 SPENCER STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 1BP
ODS code A82018
1.4 km
CARLISLE HEALTHCARE
SOUTH CARLISLE, 1 LOCKE ROAD, DURRANHILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, CARLISLE, CA1 3UB
ODS code A82016
2.2 km
EDEN MEDICAL GROUP
PORT ROAD, CARLISLE, CA2 7AJ
ODS code A82020
2.6 km
Nearby transport
- 1.8 km
Carlisle Rail Station
RLY · Carlisle
- 5.8 km
Wetheral Rail Station
RLY · Wetheral
- 7.9 km
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 13.6 km
Outlet
BCT · Gretna
- 13.7 km
Outlet
BCT · Gretna
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 004C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,892 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 12
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Richard Rose Central Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,623 published events cover 12 months, averaging 135 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 655 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.