CA6 5QA
Longtown · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA6 5QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA6
- Postcode sector
- CA6 5
- Latitude
- 55.066448
- Longitude
- -2.901345
- British National Grid easting
- 342,535
- British National Grid northing
- 575,035
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Longtown · E05014199
- Parish or community
- E04002468
- Westminster constituency
- Carlisle · E14001152
- Output area
- E00097195
- Lower layer super output area
- Carlisle 001D · E01019229
- 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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Property
At this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Burntfauld Farm, Longtown, Carlisle, CA6 5QA | 18 October 2005 | £450,000 |
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- CA6 5 residents
- 3,311
1 female, 2 male
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%
509 residents
329 residents
701 residents
984 residents
848 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA6 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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%
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 1.7 miles
Village
BCT · Rowanburn
- 1.7 miles
Village
BCT · Rowanburn
- 2.1 miles
Farm
BCT · Canonbie
- 2.1 miles
Farm
BCT · Canonbie
- 2.1 miles
Linns View
BCT · Harelaw
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 001D, 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
12,101 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 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.