CA5 5BU

Solway Coast · Cumberland · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Solway Coast
Local authority: Cumberland
Constituency: Penrith and Solway
Postcode district: CA5
Postcode sector: CA5 5

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
CA7 5BU	13 m
CA7 5BY	24 m
CA7 5BZ	87 m
CA7 5DA	117 m
CA7 5BX	129 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: CA5 5BU
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: 1 June 2000
Postcode area: CA
Postcode district: CA5
Postcode sector: CA5 5
Latitude: 54.948443
Longitude: -3.187356
British National Grid easting: 324,047
British National Grid northing: 562,177

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North West · E12000002
Local authority district: Cumberland · E06000063
Electoral ward: Solway Coast · E05014210
Parish or community: E04002392
Westminster constituency: Penrith and Solway · E14001424
Output area: E00096566
Lower layer super output area: Allerdale 002B · E01019107
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 5 km of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

Bowness-on-Solway Primary School

Foundation school
2.0 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 13
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 5
Criminal damage and arson 4
Other theft 2
Other crime 1
Public order 1

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

Road End

BCT · Dornock
4.0 km
Hall

BCT · Dornock
4.0 km
House

BCT · Dornock
4.0 km
House

BCT · Dornock
4.0 km
Road End

BCT · Dornock
4.0 km

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Allerdale 002B, 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

14,188 of 33,755

Income: 9 of 10
Employment: 8 of 10
Education and skills: 5 of 10
Health and disability: 7 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.

Evidence in context

Schools

1 open school is in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bowness-on-Solway Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.0 km.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 event per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.