Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Kirkbride Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.5 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA7 5BA
Solway Coast · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wigton
- Ward
- Solway Coast
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Postcode district
- CA7
- Postcode sector
- CA7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA7 5BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA7
- Postcode sector
- CA7 5
- Latitude
- 54.912284
- Longitude
- -3.224931
- British National Grid easting
- 321,570
- British National Grid northing
- 558,195
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Solway Coast · E05014210
- Parish or community
- E04002392
- Westminster constituency
- Penrith and Solway · E14001424
- Output area
- E00096565
- Lower layer super output area
- Allerdale 002B · E01019107
- Middle layer super output area
- Allerdale 002 · E02003966
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 CA7
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Longcroft, Windrush, Kirkbride, Wigton, CA7 5BA | 4 September 2013 | £125,000 |
| Longcroft, Thistledown, Kirkbride, Wigton, CA7 5BA | 11 March 2013 | £247,500 |
| Longcroft, Windrush, Kirkbride, Wigton, CA7 5BA | 17 August 2011 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.5 km
Kirkbride Primary School
Community school
- 4.5 km
Bowness-on-Solway Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Public order 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- 6 female, 6 male
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- CA7 5 residents
- 1,912
Age bands in CA7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.4%
- 231 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- 161 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.3%
- 285 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 34%
- 633 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 29.7%
- 553 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA7 5 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 66.7%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 33.3%
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
THE CROFT SURGERY
THE CROFT, KIRKBRIDE, PORT CARLISLE, WIGTON, CA7 5JH
ODS code A82029
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 7.4 km
Back of the Hill
BCT · Back of the Hill
- 7.7 km
Newbiebarns Road End
BCT · Newbie
- 7.7 km
Junction
BCT · Annan
- 7.7 km
Newbiebarns Road End
BCT · Newbie
- 7.7 km
Manufacturer
BCT · Newbie
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Allerdale 002B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,188 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
Recorded crime
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.