Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Cambian Dunbroch School is the nearest published school at 748 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CB8 7SL
Newmarket North · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Newmarket North
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk
- Postcode district
- CB8
- Postcode sector
- CB8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB8 7SL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB8
- Postcode sector
- CB8 7
- Latitude
- 52.266131
- Longitude
- 0.391639
- British National Grid easting
- 563,300
- British National Grid northing
- 265,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Newmarket North · E05012792
- Parish or community
- E04012768
- Westminster constituency
- West Suffolk · E14001578
- Output area
- E00152674
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 008D · E01029956
- 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
- 748 m
Cambian Dunbroch School
Other independent special school
- 1.1 km
Laureate Community Academy
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Exning Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 497
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 235
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Shoplifting 40
- Vehicle crime 36
- Other theft 27
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
OAKFIELD SURGERY
NEWMARKET HOSPITAL, 56 EXNING ROAD, NEWMARKET, CB8 7JG
ODS code D83067
1.8 km
ORCHARD HOUSE SURGERY
FRED ARCHER WAY, NEWMARKET, CB8 8NU
ODS code D83027
2.4 km
THE ROOKERY MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ROOKERY, NEWMARKET, CB8 8NW
ODS code D83029
2.5 km
BURWELL SURGERY
NEWMARKET ROAD, BURWELL, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0AE
ODS code D81051
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Studland Park Centre
BCT · Newmarket
- 0.1 miles
Studland Park Centre
BCT · Newmarket
- 0.2 miles
Persimmon Walk
BCT · Newmarket
- 0.2 miles
Persimmon Walk
BCT · Newmarket
- 0.3 miles
Nimbus Way
BCT · Newmarket
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 008D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,791 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
497 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 235 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.