Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. R A Butler Infant School is the nearest published school at 815 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB11 3ZU
Saffron Walden Shire · Uttlesford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Saffron Walden Shire
- Local authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Postcode district
- CB11
- Postcode sector
- CB11 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB11 3ZU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB11
- Postcode sector
- CB11 3
- Latitude
- 52.022934
- Longitude
- 0.255864
- British National Grid easting
- 554,877
- British National Grid northing
- 238,458
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Uttlesford · E07000077
- Electoral ward
- Saffron Walden Shire · E05009925
- Parish or community
- E04013412
- Westminster constituency
- North West Essex · E14001402
- Output area
- E00169991
- Lower layer super output area
- Uttlesford 002F · E01022081
- Middle layer super output area
- Uttlesford 002 · E02004592
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 CB11
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 815 m
R A Butler Infant School
Academy converter
- 815 m
R A Butler Junior School
Academy converter
- 840 m
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Saffron Walden
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 716
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 304
- Other theft 73
- Anti social behaviour 68
- Criminal damage and arson 64
- Public order 47
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CB11 3 residents
- 10,234
Age bands in CB11 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.8%
1,615 residents
926 residents
2,041 residents
2,715 residents
2,285 residents
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
CROCUS MEDICAL PRACTICE
SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, RADWINTER ROAD, SAFFRON WALDEN, CB11 3HY
ODS code F81015
80 m
THE GOLD STREET SURGERY
GOLD STREET, SAFFRON WALDEN, CB10 1EJ
ODS code F81009
1.1 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Spike
BCT · Saffron Walden
- 0.1 miles
Cemetery
BCT · Saffron Walden
- 0.1 miles
Hospital
BCT · Saffron Walden
- 0.1 miles
Elizabeth Way
BCT · Saffron Walden
- 0.1 miles
Elizabeth Way
BCT · Saffron Walden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Uttlesford 002F, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,520 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
716 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 304 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.