Schools
68 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 8 secondary schools. King's College School is the nearest published school at 508 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB3 9HU
Newnham · Cambridge · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB3 9HU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB3
- Postcode sector
- CB3 9
- Latitude
- 52.200132
- Longitude
- 0.111405
- British National Grid easting
- 544,393
- British National Grid northing
- 257,866
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Cambridge · E07000008
- Electoral ward
- Newnham · E05013058
- Parish or community
- E43000042
- Westminster constituency
- Cambridge · E14001149
- Output area
- E00167077
- Lower layer super output area
- Cambridge 007E · E01017985
- Middle layer super output area
- Cambridge 007 · E02003725
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
- 68
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 8
- 508 m
King's College School
Other independent school
- 587 m
Newnham Croft Primary School
Community school
- 679 m
University of Cambridge
Higher education institutions
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,214
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,155
- Shoplifting 832
- Anti social behaviour 392
- Bicycle theft 337
- Other theft 323
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CB3 9 residents
- 6,566
Age bands in CB3 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 45.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 12.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.9%
554 residents
3,390 residents
1,648 residents
914 residents
879 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.
GP practices
17
within 5 km
NEWNHAM WALK SURGERY
WORDSWORTH GROVE, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 9HS
ODS code D81005
111 m
TRUMPINGTON STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
56 TRUMPINGTON STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1RG
ODS code D81013
528 m
LENSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
48 LENSFIELD ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1EH
ODS code D81001
915 m
BRIDGE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 ALL SAINTS PASSAGE, OFF BRIDGE ST, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 3LS
ODS code D81037
995 m
WOODLANDS SURGERY
48-49 BATEMAN STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1LR
ODS code D81070
1.3 km
PETERSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 MILL ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 2AB
ODS code D81056
1.5 km
HUNTINGDON ROAD SURGERY
1 HUNTINGDON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 0DB
ODS code D81002
1.6 km
RED HOUSE SURGERY
96 CHESTERTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1ER
ODS code D81054
2.0 km
CAMBRIDGE ACCESS SURGERY
125 NEWMARKET ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 8HB
ODS code Y00056
2.1 km
YORK STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
146-148 YORK STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 2PY
ODS code D81003
2.1 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
279-281 MILL ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 3DG
ODS code D81017
2.7 km
ARBURY ROAD SURGERY
114 ARBURY ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 2JG
ODS code D81016
3.1 km
CORNFORD HOUSE SURGERY
364 CHERRY HINTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 8BA
ODS code D81012
3.5 km
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL CENTRE, 59 QUEEN EDITHS WAY, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 8PJ
ODS code D81066
3.5 km
NUFFIELD ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
NUFFIELD ROAD, CHESTERTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1GL
ODS code D81044
4.0 km
EAST BARNWELL HEALTH CENTRE
DITTON LANE, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 8SP
ODS code D81086
4.1 km
CHERRY HINTON MEDICAL CENTRE
34 FISHERS LANE, CHERRY HINTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 9HR
ODS code D81025
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
- 1.2 miles
Cambridge Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 2.0 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
- 2.0 miles
Cambridge South Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 2.0 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
- 2.6 miles
Cambridge North Rail Station
RLY · Chesterton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cambridge 007E, 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
30,036 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
4,214 published events cover 12 months, averaging 351.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,155 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.