Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sawston Village College is the nearest published school at 888 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB2 4XD
Sawston · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sawston
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB2
- Postcode sector
- CB2 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB2 4XD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 September 2006
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB2
- Postcode sector
- CB2 4
- Latitude
- 52.126997
- Longitude
- 0.150826
- British National Grid easting
- 547,328
- British National Grid northing
- 249,812
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Sawston · E05014170
- Parish or community
- E04013140
- Westminster constituency
- South Cambridgeshire · E14001481
- Output area
- E00092198
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 015B · E01018280
- Middle layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 015 · E02003789
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 CB2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 888 m
Sawston Village College
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
The Bellbird Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
William Westley Church of England VC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 174
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 64
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Criminal damage and arson 23
- Burglary 13
- Public order 12
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
GRANTA MEDICAL PRACTICES
SAWSTON MEDICAL CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, SAWSTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB22 3HU
ODS code D81043
1.8 km
Nearby transport
- 1.6 miles
Shelford (Cambs) Rail Station
RLY · Great Shelford
- 1.7 miles
Whittlesford Parkway Rail Station
RLY · Whittlesford
- 3.4 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
- 3.4 miles
Cambridge South Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 3.4 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 015B, 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
25,943 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
174 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 64 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.