Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Hauxton Primary School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB2 5HY
Harston & Comberton · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Harston & Comberton
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB2
- Postcode sector
- CB2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB2 5HY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2006
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB2
- Postcode sector
- CB2 5
- Latitude
- 52.146388
- Longitude
- 0.104272
- British National Grid easting
- 544,079
- British National Grid northing
- 251,875
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Harston & Comberton · E05011296
- Parish or community
- E04012736
- Westminster constituency
- South Cambridgeshire · E14001481
- Output area
- E00092072
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 014C · E01018254
- Middle layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 014 · E02003788
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
- 20
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 0 m
Hauxton Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Harston and Newton Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Great and Little Shelford CofE (Aided) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 90
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 34
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Burglary 8
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Other theft 7
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
HARSTON SURGERY
11 CHURCH STREET, HARSTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB22 7NP
ODS code D81058
2.3 km
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL CENTRE, 59 QUEEN EDITHS WAY, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 8PJ
ODS code D81066
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 1.5 miles
Shelford (Cambs) Rail Station
RLY · Great Shelford
- 2.2 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
- 2.2 miles
Cambridge South Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 2.3 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
- 2.8 miles
Foxton Rail Station
RLY · Foxton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 014C, 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
28,415 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
90 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 34 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.