CA6 5QY

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
CA6 5QZ	204 m
CA6 5QX	269 m
CA6 5QU	517 m
CA6 5QT	645 m
CA6 5RA	788 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: CA6 5QY
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 August 1993
Terminated: 1 December 1995
Postcode area: CA
Postcode district: CA6
Postcode sector: CA6 5
Latitude: 55.087831
Longitude: -2.883574
British National Grid easting: 343,700
British National Grid northing: 577,400

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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Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 2
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Burglary 2

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

Linns View

BCT · Harelaw
0.8 miles
Linns View

BCT · Harelaw
0.8 miles
Village

BCT · Rowanburn
1.7 miles
Village

BCT · Rowanburn
1.7 miles
Caulside

BCT · Langholm
1.9 miles

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.

Evidence in context

Recorded crime

2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.

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