Schools
70 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 8 secondary schools. Cambridge Maths School is the nearest published school at 39 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB1 2BQ
Petersfield · Cambridge · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB1 2BQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB1
- Postcode sector
- CB1 2
- Latitude
- 52.198941
- Longitude
- 0.139620
- British National Grid easting
- 546,325
- British National Grid northing
- 257,790
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Cambridge · E07000008
- Electoral ward
- Petersfield · E05013059
- Parish or community
- E43000042
- Westminster constituency
- Cambridge · E14001149
- Output area
- E00090750
- Lower layer super output area
- Cambridge 008A · E01017987
- Middle layer super output area
- Cambridge 008 · E02003726
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 CB1
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 114, Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 2BQ | 28 August 2009 | £225,000 |
| 118, Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 2BQ | 7 November 2005 | £260,000 |
| 118, Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 2BQ | 24 September 1999 | £167,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 70
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 8
- 39 m
Cambridge Maths School
Free schools 16 to 19
- 648 m
St. Andrew's College Cambridge
Other independent school
- 660 m
Sancton Wood School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,041
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,860
- Shoplifting 1,391
- Anti social behaviour 726
- Other theft 512
- Bicycle theft 509
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 32
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CB1 2 residents
- 8,881
10 female, 22 male
Age bands in CB1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 28.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 16.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.1%
828 residents
2,526 residents
3,190 residents
1,441 residents
893 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CB1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 88.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 88.5%
- 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.
GP practices
17
within 5 km
PETERSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 MILL ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 2AB
ODS code D81056
492 m
YORK STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
146-148 YORK STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 2PY
ODS code D81003
744 m
MILL ROAD SURGERY
279-281 MILL ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 3DG
ODS code D81017
777 m
WOODLANDS SURGERY
48-49 BATEMAN STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1LR
ODS code D81070
875 m
LENSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
48 LENSFIELD ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1EH
ODS code D81001
1.0 km
CAMBRIDGE ACCESS SURGERY
125 NEWMARKET ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 8HB
ODS code Y00056
1.1 km
TRUMPINGTON STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
56 TRUMPINGTON STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1RG
ODS code D81013
1.5 km
BRIDGE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 ALL SAINTS PASSAGE, OFF BRIDGE ST, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 3LS
ODS code D81037
1.7 km
CORNFORD HOUSE SURGERY
364 CHERRY HINTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 8BA
ODS code D81012
1.9 km
RED HOUSE SURGERY
96 CHESTERTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1ER
ODS code D81054
1.9 km
NEWNHAM WALK SURGERY
WORDSWORTH GROVE, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 9HS
ODS code D81005
2.0 km
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL CENTRE, 59 QUEEN EDITHS WAY, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 8PJ
ODS code D81066
2.3 km
EAST BARNWELL HEALTH CENTRE
DITTON LANE, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 8SP
ODS code D81086
2.5 km
HUNTINGDON ROAD SURGERY
1 HUNTINGDON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 0DB
ODS code D81002
2.6 km
CHERRY HINTON MEDICAL CENTRE
34 FISHERS LANE, CHERRY HINTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 9HR
ODS code D81025
2.9 km
NUFFIELD ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
NUFFIELD ROAD, CHESTERTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1GL
ODS code D81044
3.1 km
ARBURY ROAD SURGERY
114 ARBURY ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 2JG
ODS code D81016
3.1 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Cambridge Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 1.6 miles
Cambridge Airport
GAT · Cambridge
- 1.7 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
- 1.7 miles
Cambridge South Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 1.8 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cambridge 008A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,915 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Recorded crime
7,041 published events cover 12 months, averaging 586.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,860 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.