Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Armathwaite School is the nearest published school at 1.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA4 9SQ
Alston and Fellside · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alston and Fellside
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Postcode district
- CA4
- Postcode sector
- CA4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA4 9SQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA4
- Postcode sector
- CA4 9
- Latitude
- 54.790868
- Longitude
- -2.740431
- British National Grid easting
- 352,487
- British National Grid northing
- 544,248
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Alston and Fellside · E05014217
- Parish or community
- E04002510
- Westminster constituency
- Penrith and Solway · E14001424
- Output area
- E00097641
- Lower layer super output area
- Eden 001C · E01019320
- Middle layer super output area
- Eden 001 · E02004008
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
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.1 km
Armathwaite School
Community school
- 4.2 km
Kirkoswald CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.9 km
High Hesket CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- CA4 9 residents
- 1,215
6 female, 4 male
Age bands in CA4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 36.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.8%
99 residents
76 residents
146 residents
313 residents
232 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA4 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 100%
- 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
1
within 5 km
KIRKOSWALD SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, RAVEN GHYLL, KIRKOSWALD, PENRITH, CA10 1DQ
ODS code A82617
4.3 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.8 miles
Armathwaite Rail Station
RLY · Armathwaite
- 3.2 miles
Lazonby & Kirkoswald Rail Station
RLY · Lazonby
- 7.3 miles
Langwathby Rail Station
RLY · Langwathby
- 7.4 miles
Wetheral Rail Station
RLY · Wetheral
- 9.0 miles
Penrith North Lakes Rail Station
RLY · Penrith
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eden 001C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,069 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.