Property market
The five-year median is £735,000 from 1 recorded sale in CB8 9HU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Suffolk is £296,879 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
CB8 9HU
Withersfield · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newmarket
- Ward
- Withersfield
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk
- Postcode district
- CB8
- Postcode sector
- CB8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CB8 9HU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CB
- Postcode district
- CB8
- Postcode sector
- CB8 9
- Latitude
- 52.163735
- Longitude
- 0.490626
- British National Grid easting
- 570,445
- British National Grid northing
- 254,641
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Withersfield · E05012805
- Parish or community
- E04009300
- Westminster constituency
- West Suffolk · E14001578
- Output area
- E00153716
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 018B · E01030151
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 018 · E02006283
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Keepers Cottage, Cowlinge, Newmarket, CB8 9HU | 28 March 2025 | £735,000 |
| Dowells Farm, Cowlinge, Newmarket, CB8 9HU | 23 February 2017 | £805,000 |
| Keepers Cottage, Cowlinge, Newmarket, CB8 9HU | 14 July 1995 | £161,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.2 km
Wickhambrook Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 4.4 km
Barnardiston Hall Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 4.5 km
Thurlow Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 2
- Other crime 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- CB8 9 residents
- 7,827
8 female, 6 male
Age bands in CB8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
1,040 residents
550 residents
1,577 residents
2,048 residents
1,558 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CB8 9 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
WICKHAMBROOK SURGERY
BOYDEN CLOSE, WICKHAMBROOK, NEWMARKET, CB8 8XU
ODS code D83003
4.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Tillbrooks Hill
BCT · Cowlinge
- 0.6 miles
Tillbrook Hill
BCT · Cowlinge
- 0.6 miles
Seven Elms Green
BCT · Cowlinge
- 0.6 miles
Seven Elms Green
BCT · Cowlinge
- 0.7 miles
Three Tuns
BCT · Cowlinge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 018B, 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
21,406 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wickhambrook Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 2.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.