CA6 5HT

Longtown · Cumberland · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Longtown
Local authority: Cumberland
Constituency: Carlisle
Postcode district: CA6
Postcode sector: CA6 5

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DG16 5HT	107 m
DG16 5EL	468 m
DG16 5EW	558 m
DG16 5HZ	622 m
DG16 5EJ	670 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: CA6 5HT
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 December 1981
Terminated: 1 May 1994
Postcode area: CA
Postcode district: CA6
Postcode sector: CA6 5
Latitude: 55.002984
Longitude: -3.044302
British National Grid easting: 333,300
British National Grid northing: 568,100

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North West · E12000002
Local authority district: Cumberland · E06000063
Electoral ward: Longtown · E05014199
Parish or community: E04002464
Westminster constituency: Carlisle · E14001152
Output area: E00097188
Lower layer super output area: Carlisle 001C · E01019228
Middle layer super output area: Carlisle 001 · E02003987

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

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Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 14
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 10
Drugs 3
Vehicle crime 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
CA6 5 residents: 3,311

Age bands in CA6 5

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 15.1%
Age 15 to 24: 9.8%
Age 25 to 44: 20.8%
Age 45 to 64: 29.2%
Age 65 and over: 25.2%

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.

Nearby transport

Queens Head Pub

BCT · Springfield
0.4 miles
Queens Head Pub

BCT · Springfield
0.4 miles
School

BCT · Springfield
0.5 miles
School

BCT · Springfield
0.5 miles
Westgill Road

BCT · Gretna Green
0.6 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 001C, 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

4 of 10

Overall England rank

12,355 of 33,755

Income: 6 of 10
Employment: 7 of 10
Education and skills: 3 of 10
Health and disability: 5 of 10
Crime: 6 of 10
Housing and services: 2 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.

Evidence in context

Recorded crime

14 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.

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