Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Exning Primary School is the nearest published school at 24 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB8 7JD
Exning · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Exning
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk
- Postcode district
- CB8
- Postcode sector
- CB8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB8 7JD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB8
- Postcode sector
- CB8 7
- Latitude
- 52.265705
- Longitude
- 0.368166
- British National Grid easting
- 561,700
- British National Grid northing
- 265,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Exning · E05012773
- Parish or community
- E04012765
- Westminster constituency
- West Suffolk · E14001578
- Output area
- E00152569
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 008A · E01029937
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 008 · E02006243
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 CB8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 24 m
Exning Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Laureate Community Academy
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Cambian Dunbroch School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 251
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 116
- Other theft 23
- Shoplifting 18
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Vehicle crime 16
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CB8 7 residents
- 7,173
Age bands in CB8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
1,279 residents
650 residents
2,422 residents
2,009 residents
1,369 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
BURWELL SURGERY
NEWMARKET ROAD, BURWELL, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0AE
ODS code D81051
2.6 km
OAKFIELD SURGERY
NEWMARKET HOSPITAL, 56 EXNING ROAD, NEWMARKET, CB8 7JG
ODS code D83067
2.7 km
ORCHARD HOUSE SURGERY
FRED ARCHER WAY, NEWMARKET, CB8 8NU
ODS code D83027
3.4 km
THE ROOKERY MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ROOKERY, NEWMARKET, CB8 8NW
ODS code D83029
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
School
BCT · Exning
- 0.1 miles
School
BCT · Exning
- 0.3 miles
Memorial
BCT · Exning
- 0.3 miles
Memorial
BCT · Exning
- 0.3 miles
St Martins Church
BCT · Exning
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 008A, 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
22,880 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
251 published events cover 12 months, averaging 20.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 116 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.