Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Cumwhinton School is the nearest published school at 974 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA4 8HQ
Wetheral · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wetheral
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle
- Postcode district
- CA4
- Postcode sector
- CA4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA4 8HQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA4
- Postcode sector
- CA4 8
- Latitude
- 54.872774
- Longitude
- -2.843473
- British National Grid easting
- 345,971
- British National Grid northing
- 553,437
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Wetheral · E05014214
- Parish or community
- E04002480
- Westminster constituency
- Carlisle · E14001152
- Output area
- E00097306
- Lower layer super output area
- Carlisle 007E · E01019250
- Middle layer super output area
- Carlisle 007 · E02003993
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 CA4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 974 m
Cumwhinton School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Great Corby School and Nursery
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
Scotby CofE Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 47
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Drugs 4
- Other crime 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CA4 8 residents
- 5,742
Age bands in CA4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.8%
730 residents
421 residents
1,008 residents
1,628 residents
1,769 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
1
within 5 km
CARLISLE HEALTHCARE
SOUTH CARLISLE, 1 LOCKE ROAD, DURRANHILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, CARLISLE, CA1 3UB
ODS code A82016
4.1 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
- 0.9 miles
Wetheral Rail Station
RLY · Wetheral
- 3.8 miles
Carlisle Rail Station
RLY · Carlisle
- 5.2 miles
Armathwaite Rail Station
RLY · Armathwaite
- 6.1 miles
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 7.0 miles
Brampton (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Brampton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 007E, 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
25,489 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
47 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.