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CB7 5ZR
Soham South · East Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ely
- Ward
- Soham South
- Local authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB7
- Postcode sector
- CB7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB7 5ZR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB7
- Postcode sector
- CB7 5
- Latitude
- 52.307959
- Longitude
- 0.253280
- British National Grid easting
- 553,715
- British National Grid northing
- 270,149
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Cambridgeshire · E07000009
- Electoral ward
- Soham South · E05011570
- Parish or community
- E04001650
- Westminster constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire · E14001224
- Output area
- E00091065
- Lower layer super output area
- East Cambridgeshire 006C · E01018049
- Middle layer super output area
- East Cambridgeshire 006 · E02003737
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 CB7
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Old School Lane, Upware, Ely, CB7 5ZR | 26 October 2011 | £228,000 |
| 3, Old School Lane, Upware, Ely, CB7 5ZR | 25 June 2009 | £280,000 |
| 1, Old School Lane, Upware, Ely, CB7 5ZR | 23 August 2007 | £490,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 0
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Other theft 2
- Burglary 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Theft from the person 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- CB7 5 residents
- 19,533
11 female, 15 male
Age bands in CB7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
3,688 residents
1,758 residents
5,342 residents
5,320 residents
3,756 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CB7 5 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+
- 85.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 85.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 85.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 85.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 42.9%
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.
Nearby transport
- 3.6 miles
Soham
RLY · Soham
- 4.0 miles
Waterbeach Rail Station
RLY · Waterbeach
- 5.3 miles
Dennis Terrace
BCT · Exning
- 5.3 miles
Dennis Terrace
BCT · Exning
- 5.7 miles
School
BCT · Exning
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Cambridgeshire 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
21,899 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.