CA6 4LE

Houghton and Irthington · Cumberland · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Houghton and Irthington
Local authority: Cumberland
Constituency: Carlisle
Postcode district: CA6
Postcode sector: CA6 4

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
CA6 4LA	967 m
CA6 4LF	975 m
CA6 4LD	1.1 km
CA6 4LW	1.2 km
CA6 4PS	1.2 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: CA6 4LE
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: CA
Postcode district: CA6
Postcode sector: CA6 4
Latitude: 54.964393
Longitude: -2.835489
British National Grid easting: 346,605
British National Grid northing: 563,626

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: E04002472
Westminster constituency: Carlisle · E14001152
Output area: E00097247
Lower layer super output area: Carlisle 007C · E01019239
Middle layer super output area: Carlisle 007 · E02003993

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

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 3
Primary: 3
Secondary: 0

Fir Ends Primary School

Foundation school
2.9 km
Irthington Village School

Community school
3.8 km
Crosby-on-Eden CofE School

Academy converter
4.4 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 4
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 2
Other theft 1
Vehicle crime 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 3
Postcode households: 1
Residents per household: 3.0
CA6 4 residents: 4,271

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%

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+: 0%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 100%

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

Wetheral Rail Station

RLY · Wetheral
5.6 miles
Brampton (Cumbria) Rail Station

RLY · Brampton
5.7 miles
Carlisle Rail Station

RLY · Carlisle
6.4 miles
Road End

BCT · Canonbie
8.0 miles
Farm

BCT · Canonbie
8.0 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 007C, 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

6 of 10

Overall England rank

17,691 of 33,755

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

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: 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

3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Fir Ends Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.

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

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 2 events.

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