Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Papworth Hall School is the nearest published school at 712 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB23 3AF
Caxton & Papworth · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Cambridge
- Ward
- Caxton & Papworth
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB23
- Postcode sector
- CB23 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB23 3AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2011
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB23
- Postcode sector
- CB23 3
- Latitude
- 52.242375
- Longitude
- -0.115287
- British National Grid easting
- 528,780
- British National Grid northing
- 262,137
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Caxton & Papworth · E05014032
- Parish or community
- E04001833
- Westminster constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire · E14001512
- Output area
- E00187685
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 021C · E01018278
- Middle layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 021 · E02006874
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 CB23
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Stretham Gardens, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, CB23 3AF | 31 July 2020 | £288,000 |
| 12, Stretham Gardens, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, CB23 3AF | 31 May 2019 | £280,000 |
| 1, Stretham Gardens, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, CB23 3AF | 16 June 2017 | £579,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 712 m
Papworth Hall School
Other independent special school
- 1.3 km
Pendragon Community Primary School
Community school
- 3.0 km
The Newton Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 203
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 64
- Anti social behaviour 40
- Vehicle crime 21
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Other theft 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- CB23 3 residents
- 4,483
18 female, 16 male
Age bands in CB23 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 11%
900 residents
470 residents
1,260 residents
1,322 residents
487 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CB23 3 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
2
within 5 km
PAPWORTH SURGERY
THE SURGERY, CHEQUERS LANE, PAPWORTH EVERARD, CAMBRIDGE, CB23 3QQ
ODS code D81085
1.1 km
MONKFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SACKVILLE HOUSE, SACKVILLE WAY, GREAT CAMBOURNE, CAMBRIDGE, CB23 6HL
ODS code D81637
4.3 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 5.7 miles
St Neots Rail Station
RLY · St Neots
- 6.8 miles
Huntingdon Rail Station
RLY · Huntingdon
- 8.0 miles
Village Centre
BCT · Cockayne Hatley
- 8.1 miles
Hatley Turn
BCT · Cockayne Hatley
- 8.2 miles
Hatley Turn
BCT · Cockayne Hatley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 021C, 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
27,626 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
203 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.917 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.