CA5 crime rate and statistics

The CA5 postcode district, in the CA (Carlisle) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 478 street-crime records for CA5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 25.1% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 66.4 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 79.6 for Cumbria Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

478

Latest month (August 2026)

49

Year-on-year

+25.1%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 48
October 2025 47
November 2025 37
December 2025 28
January 2026 30
February 2026 37
March 2026 28
April 2026 45
May 2026 34
June 2026 46
July 2026 49
August 2026 49

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

CA5

66.4

Cumbria Constabulary

79.6

478 records and 7,204 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of CA5 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in CA5

Published street-crime records in CA5, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of CA5: the east 114, the north-west 40, the north 29, the west 23, the north-east 23, the south 9, the south-east 7.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of CA5's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CA5's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of CA5 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CA5 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for CA5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 533
2022 559
2023 496
2024 421
2025 409
2026 (part year) 318

Is CA5 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CA5 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in CA5 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

CA5's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Cumbria Constabulary (99.2%), Durham Constabulary (0.4%), Lancashire Constabulary (0.2%) and Northumbria Police (0.2%).

Postcode sectors in CA5

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
CA5 1 14
CA5 2 34
CA5 3 54
CA5 4 70
CA5 5 58
CA5 6 113
CA5 7 135

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 7,204 Census 2021 residents of CA5.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.6% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About CA5 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £287,500 (59)
2025 £280,000 (132)
2024 £320,000 (133)
2023 £256,750 (80)
2022 £275,000 (103)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £360,000 (31) £210,000 (18) £200,000 (10) –
2025 £370,000 (72) £237,450 (38) £165,000 (20) – (2)
2024 £364,950 (81) £224,101 (38) £175,000 (13) – (1)
2023 £385,000 (37) £219,000 (20) £157,000 (19) – (4)
2022 £330,000 (55) £201,250 (28) £152,500 (17) – (3)

Schools and colleges

8 open establishments with a postcode in CA5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 8 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Burgh by Sands School Primary Community school
Great Orton Primary School Primary Community school
Kirkbampton CofE School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Raughton Head CofE School & Nursery Primary Voluntary controlled school
St Michael's CofE Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Stoneraise School Primary Community school
Thursby Primary School Primary Community school
Caldew School Secondary Academy converter

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High31
Medium14
Low14
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 349 postcodes in CA5 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit51.0%65.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)73.4%89.7%

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CrimeMapsUK. CA5 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/ca5/

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