Property market
The five-year median is £461,250 from 2 recorded sales in CB5 8LU. 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.
CB5 8LU
Abbey · Cambridge · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB5 8LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB5
- Postcode sector
- CB5 8
- Latitude
- 52.209234
- Longitude
- 0.157021
- British National Grid easting
- 547,480
- British National Grid northing
- 258,970
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Cambridge · E07000008
- Electoral ward
- Abbey · E05013050
- Parish or community
- E43000042
- Westminster constituency
- Cambridge · E14001149
- Output area
- E00090512
- Lower layer super output area
- Cambridge 006C · E01017945
- Middle layer super output area
- Cambridge 006 · E02003724
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 CB5
Property
37 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 33, Whitehill Road, Cambridge, CB5 8LU | 20 December 2022 | £507,500 |
| 21a, Whitehill Road, Cambridge, CB5 8LU | 13 August 2021 | £415,000 |
| 45, Whitehill Road, Cambridge, CB5 8LU | 21 September 2018 | £460,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 72
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 8
- 347 m
The Fields Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 358 m
The Galfrid School
Academy sponsor led
- 976 m
St Philip's CofE Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,656
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,053
- Shoplifting 614
- Anti social behaviour 443
- Other theft 234
- Criminal damage and arson 233
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 105
- Postcode households
- 44
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- CB5 8 residents
- 13,530
55 female, 50 male
Age bands in CB5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 24%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.8%
1,900 residents
3,501 residents
5,003 residents
2,782 residents
1,425 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CB5 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
18
within 5 km
EAST BARNWELL HEALTH CENTRE
DITTON LANE, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 8SP
ODS code D81086
875 m
YORK STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
146-148 YORK STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 2PY
ODS code D81003
1.1 km
CAMBRIDGE ACCESS SURGERY
125 NEWMARKET ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 8HB
ODS code Y00056
1.3 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
279-281 MILL ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 3DG
ODS code D81017
1.4 km
NUFFIELD ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
NUFFIELD ROAD, CHESTERTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1GL
ODS code D81044
1.8 km
PETERSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 MILL ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 2AB
ODS code D81056
1.8 km
RED HOUSE SURGERY
96 CHESTERTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1ER
ODS code D81054
2.0 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
48-49 BATEMAN STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1LR
ODS code D81070
2.5 km
LENSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
48 LENSFIELD ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1EH
ODS code D81001
2.5 km
CORNFORD HOUSE SURGERY
364 CHERRY HINTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 8BA
ODS code D81012
2.6 km
BRIDGE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 ALL SAINTS PASSAGE, OFF BRIDGE ST, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 3LS
ODS code D81037
2.6 km
ARBURY ROAD SURGERY
114 ARBURY ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 2JG
ODS code D81016
2.7 km
TRUMPINGTON STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
56 TRUMPINGTON STREET, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1RG
ODS code D81013
2.8 km
CHERRY HINTON MEDICAL CENTRE
34 FISHERS LANE, CHERRY HINTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 9HR
ODS code D81025
2.8 km
HUNTINGDON ROAD SURGERY
1 HUNTINGDON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 0DB
ODS code D81002
3.3 km
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUEEN EDITH MEDICAL CENTRE, 59 QUEEN EDITHS WAY, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 8PJ
ODS code D81066
3.3 km
NEWNHAM WALK SURGERY
WORDSWORTH GROVE, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 9HS
ODS code D81005
3.4 km
MILTON SURGERY
87 COLES ROAD, MILTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB24 6BL
ODS code D81612
3.7 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Cambridge Airport
GAT · Cambridge
- 1.1 miles
Cambridge North Rail Station
RLY · Chesterton
- 1.3 miles
Cambridge Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
- 2.6 miles
Cambridge South Station
RSE · Addenbrookes
- 2.7 miles
Cambridge South Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cambridge 006C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,873 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 3
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
72 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 8 secondary schools. The Fields Nursery School is the nearest published school at 347 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,656 published events cover 12 months, averaging 304.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,053 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.