Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Houghton CofE School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA6 4PW
Houghton and Irthington · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle
- Postcode district
- CA6
- Postcode sector
- CA6 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA6 4PW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA6
- Postcode sector
- CA6 4
- Latitude
- 54.938022
- Longitude
- -2.917138
- British National Grid easting
- 341,339
- British National Grid northing
- 560,757
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
- E00097255
- Lower layer super output area
- Carlisle 004C · E01019240
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.6 km
Houghton CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.2 km
James Rennie School
Academy special converter
- 2.5 km
Blackford CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 41
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Public order 6
- Other crime 3
- Other theft 3
- Shoplifting 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- 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%
753 residents
420 residents
967 residents
1,402 residents
1,022 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
SPENCER ST SURGERY
10-12 SPENCER STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 1BP
ODS code A82018
4.9 km
CARLISLE CENTRAL PRACTICE
WARWICK ROAD SURGERY, 65 WARWICK ROAD, CARLISLE, CA1 1EB
ODS code A82015
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 3.3 miles
Carlisle Rail Station
RLY · Carlisle
- 5.1 miles
Wetheral Rail Station
RLY · Wetheral
- 7.0 miles
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 8.3 miles
Road End
BCT · Canonbie
- 8.3 miles
Road End
BCT · Canonbie
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 004C, 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
24,892 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
41 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.