Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 2 secondary schools. Cottenham Primary School is the nearest published school at 490 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB4 8AY
Cottenham · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Cottenham
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB4
- Postcode sector
- CB4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB4 8AY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- 1 September 2006
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB4
- Postcode sector
- CB4 8
- Latitude
- 52.288577
- Longitude
- 0.125989
- British National Grid easting
- 545,101
- British National Grid northing
- 267,731
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Cottenham · E05011289
- Parish or community
- E04001775
- Westminster constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire · E14001224
- Output area
- E00091986
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 002B · E01018234
- Middle layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 002 · E02003776
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
- 13
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 2
- 490 m
Cottenham Primary School
Community school
- 671 m
Cottenham Village College
Academy converter
- 671 m
The Centre School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 340
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 115
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Criminal damage and arson 47
- Burglary 23
- Public order 16
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
1
within 5 km
FIRS HOUSE SURGERY
FIRS HOUSE, STATION ROAD, IMPINGTON, HISTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB24 9NP
ODS code D81028
4.9 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
- 3.5 miles
Waterbeach Rail Station
RLY · Waterbeach
- 4.6 miles
Cambridge North Rail Station
RLY · Chesterton
- 5.8 miles
Cambridge Airport
GAT · Cambridge
- 6.6 miles
Cambridge Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 7.9 miles
Cambridge South Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 002B, 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
29,974 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
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
340 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 115 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.