Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 1 secondary schools. Solway Community School is the nearest published school at 453 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA5 4AU
Solway Coast · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Solway Coast
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Postcode district
- CA5
- Postcode sector
- CA5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA5 4AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA5
- Postcode sector
- CA5 4
- Latitude
- 54.868127
- Longitude
- -3.385025
- British National Grid easting
- 311,210
- British National Grid northing
- 553,473
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Solway Coast · E05014210
- Parish or community
- E04013030
- Westminster constituency
- Penrith and Solway · E14001424
- Output area
- E00096673
- Lower layer super output area
- Allerdale 001A · E01019126
- Middle layer super output area
- Allerdale 001 · E02003965
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
- 1
- Secondary
- 1
- 453 m
Solway Community School
Community school
- 543 m
Silloth Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 172
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 108
- Public order 15
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Shoplifting 9
- Other theft 8
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
SILLOTH GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
LAWN TERRACE, SILLOTH, SILLOTH-ON-SOLWAY, WIGTON, CA7 4AH
ODS code A82037
576 m
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
- 7.8 miles
Aspatria Rail Station
RLY · Aspatria
- 7.9 miles
Village
BCT · Powfoot
- 8.3 miles
Church
BCT · Cummertrees
- 8.3 miles
Post Office
BCT · Cummertrees
- 8.3 miles
Church
BCT · Cummertrees
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Allerdale 001A, 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
9,110 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
172 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 108 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.