Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Hope Tree School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB4 4EQ
Milton & Waterbeach · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Milton & Waterbeach
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB4
- Postcode sector
- CB4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB4 4EQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB4
- Postcode sector
- CB4 4
- Latitude
- 52.259098
- Longitude
- 0.149476
- British National Grid easting
- 546,800
- British National Grid northing
- 264,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Milton & Waterbeach · E05011301
- Parish or community
- E04001813
- Westminster constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire · E14001224
- Output area
- E00092288
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 004C · E01018300
- Middle layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 004 · E02003778
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 CB4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.7 km
Hope Tree School
Other independent special school
- 1.7 km
Milton Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Red Balloon Learner Centre - Cambridge
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 180
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 101
- Violence and sexual offences 22
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Burglary 12
- Criminal damage and arson 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
MILTON SURGERY
87 COLES ROAD, MILTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB24 6BL
ODS code D81612
2.1 km
FIRS HOUSE SURGERY
FIRS HOUSE, STATION ROAD, IMPINGTON, HISTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB24 9NP
ODS code D81028
3.1 km
WATERBEACH AND COTTENHAM SURGERIES
ROSALIND FRANKLIN HOUSE, BANNOLD ROAD, WATERBEACH, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 9LQ
ODS code D81042
3.4 km
NUFFIELD ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
NUFFIELD ROAD, CHESTERTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1GL
ODS code D81044
3.8 km
ARBURY ROAD SURGERY
114 ARBURY ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 2JG
ODS code D81016
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 2.0 miles
Waterbeach Rail Station
RLY · Waterbeach
- 2.4 miles
Cambridge North Rail Station
RLY · Chesterton
- 3.6 miles
Cambridge Airport
GAT · Cambridge
- 4.5 miles
Cambridge Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 5.9 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 004C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,336 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
180 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 101 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.