Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Meadow Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB21 4BE
Balsham · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Cambridge
- Ward
- Balsham
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB21
- Postcode sector
- CB21 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB21 4BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB21
- Postcode sector
- CB21 4
- Latitude
- 52.133037
- Longitude
- 0.303362
- British National Grid easting
- 557,747
- British National Grid northing
- 250,804
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
- E04001759
- Westminster constituency
- South Cambridgeshire · E14001481
- Output area
- E00091897
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 016B · E01018219
- 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 CB21
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Hildersham Road, Balsham, Cambridge, CB21 4BE | 7 December 2018 | £171,750 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.1 km
Meadow Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.9 km
Linton Heights Junior School
Academy converter
- 4.3 km
Linton CofE Infant School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 58
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 25
- Vehicle crime 12
- Other theft 6
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Drugs 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CB21 4 residents
- 8,308
Age bands in CB21 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.4%
1,291 residents
811 residents
1,600 residents
2,504 residents
2,116 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.
Nearby transport
- 3.8 miles
The Kings Head
BCT · Hadstock
- 4.0 miles
The Library
BCT · Hadstock
- 5.0 miles
Waltons Park
BCT · Ashdon
- 5.0 miles
Waltons Park
BCT · Ashdon
- 5.0 miles
Whitensmere Farm
BCT · Ashdon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 016B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,519 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
58 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 25 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.