Property market
The five-year median is £450,000 from 1 recorded sale in CA6 6HX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cumberland is £172,036 in June 2026, up 6.9% year on year.
CA6 6HX
Houghton and Irthington · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Carlisle
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle
- Postcode district
- CA6
- Postcode sector
- CA6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA6 6HX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA6
- Postcode sector
- CA6 6
- Latitude
- 55.027574
- Longitude
- -2.822521
- British National Grid easting
- 347,518
- British National Grid northing
- 570,647
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
- E04002475
- Westminster constituency
- Carlisle · E14001152
- Output area
- E00097197
- 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
Explore CA6
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Myrtle Cottage, Hethersgill, Carlisle, CA6 6HX | 7 November 2024 | £450,000 |
| Hewstown, Hethersgill, Carlisle, CA6 6HX | 2 October 2020 | £745,000 |
| Stoneybrook, Hethersgill, Carlisle, CA6 6HX | 27 January 2017 | £305,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.2 km
Shankhill CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 40
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- CA6 6 residents
- 1,604
20 female, 20 male
Age bands in CA6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 37.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.3%
185 residents
154 residents
270 residents
610 residents
413 residents
This postcode contained 2.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA6 6 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+
- 94.4%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 94.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 94.4%
- Gigabit-capable
- 94.4%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 5.6%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
- 5.6 miles
Linns View
BCT · Harelaw
- 5.6 miles
Linns View
BCT · Harelaw
- 5.8 miles
Village
BCT · Rowanburn
- 5.8 miles
Village
BCT · Rowanburn
- 6.3 miles
Caulside
BCT · Langholm
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.
Evidence in context
Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Shankhill CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.