Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Shade Primary School is the nearest published school at 429 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB7 6BN
Soham North · East Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Soham North
- Local authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- CB7
- Postcode sector
- CB7 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB7 6BN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB7
- Postcode sector
- CB7 6
- Latitude
- 52.346742
- Longitude
- 0.326565
- British National Grid easting
- 558,572
- British National Grid northing
- 274,620
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Cambridgeshire · E07000009
- Electoral ward
- Soham North · E05011569
- Parish or community
- E04001641
- Westminster constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire · E14001224
- Output area
- E00173720
- Lower layer super output area
- East Cambridgeshire 006A · E01018047
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 429 m
The Shade Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
The Weatheralls Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.1 km
Soham Village College
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 362
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 171
- Anti social behaviour 72
- Criminal damage and arson 23
- Vehicle crime 21
- Public order 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CB7 6 residents
- 38
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
1
within 5 km
STAPLOE MEDICAL CENTRE
BREWHOUSE LANE, SOHAM, ELY, CB7 5JD
ODS code D81014
1.7 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
- 0.9 miles
Soham
RLY · Soham
- 4.0 miles
Ely Rail Station
RLY · Ely
- 5.7 miles
Dennis Terrace
BCT · Exning
- 5.7 miles
Dennis Terrace
BCT · Exning
- 5.8 miles
School
BCT · Exning
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Cambridgeshire 006A, 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
19,010 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
362 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 171 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.