Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wiggonby CofE School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA5 6QJ
Thursby · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Carlisle
- Ward
- Thursby
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Postcode district
- CA5
- Postcode sector
- CA5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA5 6QJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA5
- Postcode sector
- CA5 6
- Latitude
- 54.847963
- Longitude
- -3.086332
- British National Grid easting
- 330,344
- British National Grid northing
- 550,891
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Thursby · E05014212
- Parish or community
- E04002431
- Westminster constituency
- Penrith and Solway · E14001424
- Output area
- E00096693
- Lower layer super output area
- Allerdale 002C · E01019130
- 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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Thresher Barn, Whinnow, Carlisle, CA5 6QJ | 19 February 2021 | £287,500 |
| Wheat Fields, Whinnow, Carlisle, CA5 6QJ | 24 March 2016 | £380,000 |
| Thresher Barn, Whinnow, Carlisle, CA5 6QJ | 28 July 2014 | £285,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.2 km
Wiggonby CofE School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.6 km
Thursby Primary School
Community school
- 3.5 km
Rosley CofE School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Drugs 1
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- CA5 6 residents
- 3,989
5 female, 6 male
Age bands in CA5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.2%
666 residents
377 residents
840 residents
1,361 residents
1,151 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA5 6 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 3.4 miles
Wigton Rail Station
RLY · Wigton
- 3.9 miles
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 9.7 miles
Mount Pleasant
BCT · Rigg
- 9.8 miles
Mount Pleasant
BCT · Rigg
- 9.9 miles
Park
BCT · Gretna
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Allerdale 002C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,117 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
- 1
- 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.