CA9 3BW
Alston and Fellside · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
- Post town
- Alston
- Ward
- Alston and Fellside
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Postcode district
- CA9
- Postcode sector
- CA9 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA9 3BW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA9
- Postcode sector
- CA9 3
- Latitude
- 54.772399
- Longitude
- -2.555673
- British National Grid easting
- 364,351
- British National Grid northing
- 542,083
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Alston and Fellside · E05014217
- Parish or community
- E04002546
- Westminster constituency
- Penrith and Solway · E14001424
- Output area
- E00097645
- Lower layer super output area
- Eden 001C · E01019320
- Middle layer super output area
- Eden 001 · E02004008
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 CA9
Property
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| White Cottage, Alston, CA9 3BW | 26 August 2008 | £58,000 |
| White Cottage, Alston, CA9 3BW | 3 December 1998 | £10,500 |
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CA9 3 residents
- 2,081
Age bands in CA9 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 35.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
243 residents
139 residents
413 residents
716 residents
517 residents
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- 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
- 5.4 miles
Castle Nook
BCT · Kirkhaugh
- 5.4 miles
Castle Nook
BCT · Kirkhaugh
- 5.5 miles
Dyke Farm
BCT · Kirkhaugh
- 5.5 miles
Dyke Farm
BCT · Kirkhaugh
- 5.8 miles
Far Town
BCT · Kirkhaugh
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eden 001C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,069 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 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.