Property market
The five-year median is £570,000 from 3 recorded sales in CA6 4JF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cumberland is £172,036 in June 2026, up 6.9% year on year.
CA6 4JF
Houghton and Irthington · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Carlisle
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle
- Postcode district
- CA6
- Postcode sector
- CA6 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA6 4JF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA6
- Postcode sector
- CA6 4
- Latitude
- 54.933000
- Longitude
- -2.922845
- British National Grid easting
- 340,966
- British National Grid northing
- 560,203
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Houghton and Irthington · E05014195
- Parish or community
- E04002474
- Westminster constituency
- Carlisle · E14001152
- Output area
- E00097248
- Lower layer super output area
- Carlisle 004B · E01019238
- Middle layer super output area
- Carlisle 004 · E02003990
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 CA6
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Glenroy, Houghton, Carlisle, CA6 4JF | 10 August 2023 | £85,000 |
| Woodlands, Houghton, Carlisle, CA6 4JF | 26 August 2022 | £585,000 |
| Woodlands, Houghton, Carlisle, CA6 4JF | 27 October 2021 | £570,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 965 m
Houghton CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.6 km
James Rennie School
Academy special converter
- 2.4 km
Kingmoor Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 173
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 65
- Shoplifting 33
- Drugs 16
- Criminal damage and arson 15
- Public order 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CA6 4 residents
- 4,271
3 female, 3 male
Age bands in CA6 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.4%
753 residents
420 residents
967 residents
1,402 residents
1,022 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA6 4 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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
SPENCER ST SURGERY
10-12 SPENCER STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 1BP
ODS code A82018
4.3 km
CARLISLE CENTRAL PRACTICE
WARWICK ROAD SURGERY, 65 WARWICK ROAD, CARLISLE, CA1 1EB
ODS code A82015
4.4 km
WARWICK SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
GROSVENOR HOUSE, WARWICK SQUARE, CARLISLE, CA1 1LB
ODS code A82654
4.4 km
EDEN MEDICAL GROUP
PORT ROAD, CARLISLE, CA2 7AJ
ODS code A82020
4.7 km
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
- 3.0 miles
Carlisle Rail Station
RLY · Carlisle
- 5.0 miles
Wetheral Rail Station
RLY · Wetheral
- 6.6 miles
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 6.9 miles
Outlet
BCT · Gretna
- 8.6 miles
Road End
BCT · Canonbie
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 004B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,299 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Houghton CofE School is the nearest published school at 965 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
173 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 65 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.