Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Papworth Hall School is the nearest published school at 315 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB3 8QS
Caxton & Papworth · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Caxton & Papworth
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB3
- Postcode sector
- CB3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB3 8QS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2006
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB3
- Postcode sector
- CB3 8
- Latitude
- 52.247397
- Longitude
- -0.121256
- British National Grid easting
- 528,358
- British National Grid northing
- 262,685
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
- E00187674
- 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 CB3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 315 m
Papworth Hall School
Other independent special school
- 630 m
Pendragon Community Primary School
Community school
- 3.2 km
Elsworth CofE VA Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 171
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 59
- Anti social behaviour 31
- Vehicle crime 19
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Shoplifting 11
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
PAPWORTH SURGERY
THE SURGERY, CHEQUERS LANE, PAPWORTH EVERARD, CAMBRIDGE, CB23 3QQ
ODS code D81085
582 m
MONKFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SACKVILLE HOUSE, SACKVILLE WAY, GREAT CAMBOURNE, CAMBRIDGE, CB23 6HL
ODS code D81637
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 5.5 miles
St Neots Rail Station
RLY · St Neots
- 6.4 miles
Huntingdon Rail Station
RLY · Huntingdon
- 8.3 miles
Village Centre
BCT · Cockayne Hatley
- 8.4 miles
Hatley Turn
BCT · Cockayne Hatley
- 8.4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
171 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 59 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.