Longtown

Longtown is covered by postcode district CA6. It is in the Cumberland council area, England.

Typical price £177,000 Homes sold in Longtown, last 12 months. ▲ 7.3% on the year before Gigabit broadband 56 of 68 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 12 of 69 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 55 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Longtown, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Longtown, by flood risk Of the 69 postcodes in Longtown that ONS places, 7 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 57 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Longtown. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A6071A7 CA6 5BF: not on the flood risk listCA6 5FA: not on the flood risk listCA6 5FB: not on the flood risk listCA6 5FD: not on the flood risk listCA6 5FE: not on the flood risk listCA6 5NP: not on the flood risk listCA6 5NR: not on the flood risk listCA6 5NS: not on the flood risk listCA6 5NU: not on the flood risk listCA6 5NX: not on the flood risk listCA6 5NZ: not on the flood risk listCA6 5PS: not on the flood risk listCA6 5SA: not on the flood risk listCA6 5SB: not on the flood risk listCA6 5SD: not on the flood risk listCA6 5SE: not on the flood risk listCA6 5SF: not on the flood risk listCA6 5SG: not on the flood risk listCA6 5SJ: not on the flood risk listCA6 5SQ: not on the flood risk listCA6 5TB: not on the flood risk listCA6 5TD: not on the flood risk listCA6 5TF: not on the flood risk listCA6 5TG: not on the flood risk listCA6 5TH: not on the flood risk listCA6 5TJ: not on the flood risk listCA6 5TR: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UA: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UB: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UD: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UE: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UF: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UG: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UH: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UJ: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UL: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UN: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UP: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UQ: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UR: not on the flood risk listCA6 5US: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UT: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UU: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UW: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UY: not on the flood risk listCA6 5UZ: not on the flood risk listCA6 5WD: not on the flood risk listCA6 5WE: not on the flood risk listCA6 5WF: not on the flood risk listCA6 5WR: not on the flood risk listCA6 5XA: not on the flood risk listCA6 5XB: not on the flood risk listCA6 5XE: not on the flood risk listCA6 5XF: not on the flood risk listCA6 5XS: not on the flood risk listCA6 5XY: not on the flood risk listCA6 5YS: not on the flood risk listCA6 5TQ: low flood risk at worstCA6 5XW: low flood risk at worstCA6 5XJ: medium flood risk at worstCA6 5XN: medium flood risk at worstCA6 5LX: high flood riskCA6 5NT: high flood riskCA6 5PT: high flood riskCA6 5PU: high flood riskCA6 5UX: high flood riskCA6 5XD: high flood riskCA6 5XU: high flood risk Longtown Map of every postcode in Longtown, by flood risk Of the 69 postcodes in Longtown that ONS places, 7 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 57 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Longtown. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A6071 Longtown
  • A home or business at high risk: 7
  • At medium risk at worst: 3
  • At low risk at worst: 2
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 57

Of the 69 postcodes in Longtown that ONS places, 7 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 57 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. 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 55.0093, longitude -2.9668. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 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

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

CA6 5XU25 at high riskCA6 5PT4 at high riskCA6 5XD3 at high riskCA6 5NT2 at high riskCA6 5PU1 at high riskCA6 5UX1 at high riskCA6 5LX1 at high risk

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

CA6 5LJ

What is it like to live in Longtown?

Homes sold for a typical £177,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 7.3% on the 12 months before. At 56 of the 68 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 55 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 12 of its 69 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Gretna Green, 6.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Longtown?

Homes in Longtown sold for a typical £177,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 27 sales, up 7.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£177,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£165,000
12 months to August 2026
£177,000

▲ up 7.3% on the 12 months before

Detached£210,000 9 sales
Semi-detached£160,000 11 sales
Terraced£115,000 7 sales

Across the whole CA6 district, Longtown's main postcode district: a typical £230,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Longtown: 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

Are new homes being built in Longtown?

2 of the 69 postcodes now in use in Longtown came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 3 of the 35 homes sold in Longtown were newly built (9%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CA6 district, 6%.

The newest postcodes

CA6 5FDsince September 2024CA6 5FEsince January 2024

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn LongtownAcross the CA6 district
The 12 months to August 2026 1 of 27 (4%) 13 of 104 (13%)
The 12 months to August 2025 3 of 35 (9%) 6 of 109 (6%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Longtown?

Ofcom reports on 68 of the 69 postcodes in Longtown. At 56 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit56 of 68
Postcodes where every home can get superfast67 of 68

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 Longtown at risk of flooding?

12 of the 69 postcodes in Longtown 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 55 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 12 of 69 postcodes High: 37Medium: 18Low: 27Very low: 9

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

Which schools are in Longtown?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Longtown. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Longtown?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Longtown is Gretna Green Rail Station, 6.3 km away in a straight line.

  • Gretna Green Rail Station Railway station 6.3 kmDrive
  • Carlisle Rail Station Railway station 13.4 kmDrive
  • Wetheral Rail Station Railway station 16.4 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Longtown?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Longtown. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Longtown safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 200 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Longtown over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 14 September 2025
  2. 27 October 2025
  3. 15 November 2025
  4. 20 December 2025
  5. 17 January 2026
  6. 16 February 2026
  7. 15 March 2026
  8. 13 April 2026
  9. 8 May 2026
  10. 16 June 2026
  11. 24 July 2026
  12. 15 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences82 reports
Criminal damage and arson34 reports
Public order23 reports
Other theft15 reports
Anti-social behaviour13 reports
Other crime11 reports
Shoplifting8 reports
Drugs5 reports

Also: possession of weapons 4, burglary 3, vehicle crime 2.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Longtown?

Council
Cumberland
Parliamentary constituency
Carlisle
Police force area
Cumbria
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Ms Julie Minns (Labour)

All 69 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

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Longtown postcodes

69 postcodes in use in Longtown, by district:

CA6 postcode district,69 postcodes

That district is in the CA postcode area.

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Places near Longtown

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Longtown's £177,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Gretna6.5 kmCarlisle13.3 km, £155,000Eastriggs13.6 kmLangholm15.9 kmBrampton16.6 km, £188,000Dalston18.5 km, £190,000Annan18.6 kmWigton24.1 km, £182,748 All places A to Z

Questions about Longtown

What is it like to live in Longtown?
Homes sold for a typical £177,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 7.3% on the 12 months before. At 56 of the 68 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 55 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 12 of its 69 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Gretna Green, 6.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Longtown?
Longtown is covered by postcode district CA6, across 69 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Longtown in?
Longtown is in the Cumberland council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Longtown?
Longtown is in the Carlisle parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Ms Julie Minns (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Longtown?
Homes in Longtown sold for a typical £177,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 27 sales, up 7.3% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Longtown?
In Longtown, primary schools at its postcodes include Longtown Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is James Rennie School, 9.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Longtown have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Longtown is Gretna Green, 6.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Longtown?
Ofcom reports on 68 of the 69 postcodes in Longtown. At 56 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Longtown at risk of flooding?
12 of the 69 postcodes in Longtown 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 55 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Longtown?
2 of the 69 postcodes now in use in Longtown came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 3 of the 35 homes sold in Longtown were newly built (9%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CA6 district, 6%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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