Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Meadow Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB1 5LY
Balsham · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Balsham
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB1
- Postcode sector
- CB1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB1 5LY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2006
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB1
- Postcode sector
- CB1 5
- Latitude
- 52.141874
- Longitude
- 0.346817
- British National Grid easting
- 560,689
- British National Grid northing
- 251,882
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Balsham · E05011282
- Parish or community
- E04001851
- Westminster constituency
- South Cambridgeshire · E14001481
- Output area
- E00091908
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 016A · E01018218
- Middle layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 016 · E02003790
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.2 km
Meadow Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 4.8 km
Burrough Green CofE Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Burglary 3
- Other crime 3
- Drugs 1
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
Nearby transport
- 3.8 miles
Church Street
BCT · Withersfield
- 3.9 miles
Church Street
BCT · Withersfield
- 3.9 miles
Burton Hill
BCT · Withersfield
- 3.9 miles
Burton Hill
BCT · Withersfield
- 4.2 miles
Research Park
BCT · Haverhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 016A, 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
24,673 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.