Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Boltons CofE School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA5 1DQ
Thursby · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Thursby
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Postcode district
- CA5
- Postcode sector
- CA5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA5 1DQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA5
- Postcode sector
- CA5 1
- Latitude
- 54.768597
- Longitude
- -3.162249
- British National Grid easting
- 325,323
- British National Grid northing
- 542,138
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Thursby · E05014212
- Parish or community
- E04002389
- Westminster constituency
- Penrith and Solway · E14001424
- Output area
- E00096438
- Lower layer super output area
- Allerdale 002A · E01019083
- Middle layer super output area
- Allerdale 002 · E02003966
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 CA5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.7 km
Boltons CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.7 km
Ireby CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
Nearby transport
- 4.2 miles
Wigton Rail Station
RLY · Wigton
- 6.8 miles
Aspatria Rail Station
RLY · Aspatria
- 8.8 miles
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 12.0 miles
Nichol End (Derwentwater) Ferry Landing
FER · Portinscale
- 12.0 miles
Nichol End (Derwentwater) Ferry Landing
FBT · Portinscale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Allerdale 002A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,357 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.