CA6 postcode district: Longtown and around, Cumberland

CA6 is a postcode district in England, with 519 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Longtown and Carlisle. Its council is Cumberland.

Postcodes in use: 519
Sectors: 3
Council: Cumberland
Places: 2 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in CA6, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 121
Some can get gigabit: 132
Every home and business can get gigabit: 255
Ofcom gives no figure: 11
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 519 postcodes in CA6 that ONS places, 121 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 132 have some that can, 255 can all get it and 11 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 600 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.9924, longitude -2.8962. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

121 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

CA6 4AD CA6 4AL CA6 4AZ CA6 4BP CA6 4BU CA6 4DD CA6 4DF CA6 4DQ CA6 4ED CA6 4EF CA6 4EL CA6 4EW

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CA6 6EP, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in CA6?

Ofcom reports on 508 of the 519 postcodes in CA6. At 255 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 44 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit255 of 508

Postcodes where every home can get superfast323 of 508

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband44 of 508

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is CA6 at risk of flooding?

86 of the 519 postcodes in CA6 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 580 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 86 of 519 postcodes High: 480Medium: 100Low: 236Very low: 110

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in CA6?

Homes in CA6 sold for a typical £230,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 104 sales, down 8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£230,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£249,950 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 8% on the 12 months before

Detached £274,750 48 sales
Semi-detached £183,500 36 sales
Terraced £137,750 18 sales
Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it