Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Fulbourn Primary School is the nearest published school at 339 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB21 5HU
Fen Ditton & Fulbourn · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Cambridge
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB21
- Postcode sector
- CB21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB21 5HU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2006
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB21
- Postcode sector
- CB21 5
- Latitude
- 52.182488
- Longitude
- 0.215951
- British National Grid easting
- 551,597
- British National Grid northing
- 256,117
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Fen Ditton & Fulbourn · E05011291
- Parish or community
- E04001786
- Westminster constituency
- South Cambridgeshire · E14001481
- Output area
- E00092025
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 011A · E01018242
- Middle layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 011 · E02003785
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Chaplins Close, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5HU | 21 May 2013 | £105,000 |
| 10, Chaplins Close, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5HU | 8 September 2011 | £91,500 |
| 13, Chaplins Close, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5HU | 31 March 2006 | £76,526 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 339 m
Fulbourn Primary School
Community school
- 469 m
Landmark International School
Other independent school
- 573 m
Waldorf Cambridge School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 185
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 73
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Drugs 15
- Burglary 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 40
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- CB21 5 residents
- 5,859
21 female, 19 male
Age bands in CB21 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.8%
1,110 residents
490 residents
1,383 residents
1,591 residents
1,428 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CB21 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
CHERRY HINTON MEDICAL CENTRE
34 FISHERS LANE, CHERRY HINTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 9HR
ODS code D81025
2.7 km
CORNFORD HOUSE SURGERY
364 CHERRY HINTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 8BA
ODS code D81012
4.1 km
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL CENTRE, 59 QUEEN EDITHS WAY, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 8PJ
ODS code D81066
4.5 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
279-281 MILL ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 3DG
ODS code D81017
4.8 km
EAST BARNWELL HEALTH CENTRE
DITTON LANE, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 8SP
ODS code D81086
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 2.6 miles
Cambridge Airport
GAT · Cambridge
- 3.4 miles
Cambridge Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 3.6 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
- 3.6 miles
Cambridge South Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 3.7 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 011A, 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
25,933 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
185 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 73 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.