Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ely College is the nearest published school at 704 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB6 3AF
Ely West · East Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ely West
- Local authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB6
- Postcode sector
- CB6 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB6 3AF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB6
- Postcode sector
- CB6 3
- Latitude
- 52.402914
- Longitude
- 0.249073
- British National Grid easting
- 553,100
- British National Grid northing
- 280,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Cambridgeshire · E07000009
- Electoral ward
- Ely West · E05011565
- Parish or community
- E04012829
- Westminster constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire · E14001224
- Output area
- E00173714
- Lower layer super output area
- East Cambridgeshire 004F · E01033425
- Middle layer super output area
- East Cambridgeshire 004 · E02003735
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 CB6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 704 m
Ely College
Academy converter
- 711 m
Active Learning Trust Linc 19 - 25
Special post 16 institution
- 733 m
Highfield Ely Academy
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,194
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 399
- Shoplifting 208
- Anti social behaviour 189
- Criminal damage and arson 94
- Other theft 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CB6 3 residents
- 14,356
Age bands in CB6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
2,635 residents
1,352 residents
3,405 residents
4,142 residents
2,813 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
ST MARY'S SURGERY
37 ST. MARYS STREET, ELY, CB7 4HF
ODS code D81034
797 m
CATHEDRAL MEDICAL CENTRE
PRINCESS OF WALES HOSP, LYNN ROAD, ELY, CB6 1DN
ODS code Y00185
2.1 km
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
Ely Rail Station
RLY · Ely
- 5.0 miles
Littleport Rail Station
RLY · Littleport
- 5.8 miles
Soham
RLY · Soham
- 7.2 miles
Shippea Hill Rail Station
RLY · Shippea Hill
- 7.2 miles
Manea Rail Station
RLY · Manea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Cambridgeshire 004F, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,442 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,194 published events cover 12 months, averaging 99.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 399 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.