CA7 5BW

Solway Coast · Cumberland · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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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

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
CA7 5BH	9 m
CA7 5BL	23 m
CA7 5BP	43 m
CA7 5BJ	58 m
CA7 5AF	229 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: CA7 5BW
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 June 2000
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: CA
Postcode district: CA7
Postcode sector: CA7 5
Latitude: 54.953656
Longitude: -3.211886
British National Grid easting: 322,486
British National Grid northing: 562,784

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: E00096568
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

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Property

At this postcode

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2 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
Garth Cottage, Bowness On Solway, Wigton, CA7 5BW	27 September 2002	£40,000
The Willows, Bowness On Solway, Wigton, CA7 5BW	6 November 2000	£36,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

Bowness-on-Solway Primary School

Foundation school
451 m

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 15
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 12
Other crime 1
Other theft 1
Public order 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 5
Postcode households: 2
Residents per household: 2.5
CA7 5 residents: 1,912

Age bands in CA7 5

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 12.4%
Age 15 to 24: 8.6%
Age 25 to 44: 15.3%
Age 45 to 64: 34%
Age 65 and over: 29.7%

This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA7 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

How to read these estimates

The standard postcode headcounts and the commissioned age table are separate ONS outputs. Small counts are disclosure-controlled, and totals can differ slightly between tables. Coverage is England and Wales only.

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%

Coverage is a modelled postcode-level snapshot, not a speed test or a guarantee for a named property. Check availability with providers before making a decision. Ofcom does not publish postcode-level full-fibre coverage in this release for commercial-confidentiality reasons.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

House

BCT · Dornock
2.1 miles
House

BCT · Dornock
2.1 miles
Hall

BCT · Dornock
2.1 miles
Road End

BCT · Dornock
2.2 miles
Road End

BCT · Dornock
2.2 miles

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

A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.

Schools

Published establishments

1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bowness-on-Solway Primary School is the nearest published school at 451 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

Published police records

15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.

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