Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Lime House School is the nearest published school at 102 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA5 7BU
Dalston and Burgh · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dalston and Burgh
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Postcode district
- CA5
- Postcode sector
- CA5 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA5 7BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA5
- Postcode sector
- CA5 7
- Latitude
- 54.814859
- Longitude
- -2.972530
- British National Grid easting
- 337,600
- British National Grid northing
- 547,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Dalston and Burgh · E05014185
- Parish or community
- E04002457
- Westminster constituency
- Penrith and Solway · E14001424
- Output area
- E00097099
- Lower layer super output area
- Carlisle 013A · E01019212
- Middle layer super output area
- Carlisle 013 · E02003999
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
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 102 m
Lime House School
Other independent school
- 1.6 km
Raughton Head CofE School & Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.3 km
St Michael's CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CA5 7 residents
- 3,240
Age bands in CA5 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.6%
422 residents
242 residents
492 residents
795 residents
859 residents
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
DALSTON MEDICAL GROUP
THE SURGERY, TOWNHEAD ROAD, DALSTON, CARLISLE, CA5 7PZ
ODS code A82022
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 2.3 miles
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 5.5 miles
Carlisle Rail Station
RLY · Carlisle
- 7.4 miles
Wetheral Rail Station
RLY · Wetheral
- 7.7 miles
Wigton Rail Station
RLY · Wigton
- 8.0 miles
Armathwaite Rail Station
RLY · Armathwaite
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 013A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,981 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.