Property market
The five-year median is £516,953 from 43 recorded sales in CB3 1BS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cambridge is £471,098 in June 2026, down 1.2% year on year.
CB3 1BS
Castle · Cambridge · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB3 1BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB3
- Postcode sector
- CB3 1
- Latitude
- 52.217105
- Longitude
- 0.084849
- British National Grid easting
- 542,524
- British National Grid northing
- 259,701
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Cambridge · E07000008
- Electoral ward
- Castle · E05013052
- Parish or community
- E43000042
- Westminster constituency
- Cambridge · E14001149
- Output area
- E00187751
- Lower layer super output area
- Cambridge 005G · E01035513
- Middle layer super output area
- Cambridge 005 · E02003723
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 CB3
Property
43 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 331, Turing Way, Cambridge, CB3 1BS | 25 March 2024 | £522,453 |
| 337, Turing Way, Cambridge, CB3 1BS | 21 December 2023 | £549,950 |
| 347, Turing Way, Cambridge, CB3 1BS | 21 December 2023 | £574,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 576 m
University of Cambridge Primary School
Free schools
- 1.7 km
St John's College School
Other independent school
- 1.7 km
Mayfield Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 439
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 104
- Anti social behaviour 61
- Vehicle crime 48
- Bicycle theft 38
- Other theft 36
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CB3 1 residents
- 1,496
Age bands in CB3 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 66.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 4.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 1.7%
149 residents
266 residents
986 residents
65 residents
26 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.
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
13
within 5 km
HUNTINGDON ROAD SURGERY
1 HUNTINGDON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 0DB
ODS code D81002
1.8 km
BRIDGE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 ALL SAINTS PASSAGE, OFF BRIDGE ST, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 3LS
ODS code D81037
2.5 km
NEWNHAM WALK SURGERY
WORDSWORTH GROVE, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 9HS
ODS code D81005
2.6 km
TRUMPINGTON STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
56 TRUMPINGTON STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1RG
ODS code D81013
2.8 km
RED HOUSE SURGERY
96 CHESTERTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1ER
ODS code D81054
3.0 km
ARBURY ROAD SURGERY
114 ARBURY ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 2JG
ODS code D81016
3.1 km
LENSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
48 LENSFIELD ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1EH
ODS code D81001
3.4 km
FIRS HOUSE SURGERY
FIRS HOUSE, STATION ROAD, IMPINGTON, HISTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB24 9NP
ODS code D81028
3.6 km
PETERSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 MILL ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 2AB
ODS code D81056
3.8 km
CAMBRIDGE ACCESS SURGERY
125 NEWMARKET ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 8HB
ODS code Y00056
3.8 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
48-49 BATEMAN STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1LR
ODS code D81070
3.8 km
YORK STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
146-148 YORK STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 2PY
ODS code D81003
4.1 km
NUFFIELD ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
NUFFIELD ROAD, CHESTERTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1GL
ODS code D81044
4.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 2.7 miles
Cambridge Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 3.2 miles
Cambridge North Rail Station
RLY · Chesterton
- 3.5 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
- 3.6 miles
Cambridge South Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 3.6 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cambridge 005G, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,375 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 3
- 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
Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. University of Cambridge Primary School is the nearest published school at 576 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
439 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 104 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.