Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Westwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 229 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE15 8QU
March West & Benwick · Fenland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- March
- Ward
- March West & Benwick
- Local authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- PE15
- Postcode sector
- PE15 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE15 8QU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1983
- Terminated
- 1 September 2015
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE15
- Postcode sector
- PE15 8
- Latitude
- 52.554168
- Longitude
- 0.077225
- British National Grid easting
- 540,927
- British National Grid northing
- 297,172
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Fenland · E07000010
- Electoral ward
- March West & Benwick · E05015429
- Parish or community
- E04001661
- Westminster constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire · E14001390
- Output area
- E00091245
- Lower layer super output area
- Fenland 009C · E01018087
- Middle layer super output area
- Fenland 009 · E02003750
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 PE15
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Davern Workwear Ltd, Elliott Road, March, PE15 8QU | 30 May 2018 | £1,722,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 229 m
Westwood Primary School
Academy converter
- 896 m
All Saints Interchurch Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Burrowmoor Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,566
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 660
- Anti social behaviour 244
- Criminal damage and arson 128
- Other theft 126
- Public order 82
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE15 8 residents
- 11,223
Age bands in PE15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
1,991 residents
1,128 residents
2,706 residents
3,040 residents
2,531 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
RIVERSIDE PRACTICE
23 MARYLEBONE ROAD, MARCH, PE15 8BG
ODS code D81603
463 m
CORNERSTONE PRACTICE
26 ELWYN ROAD, MARCH, PE15 9BF
ODS code D81052
1.1 km
MERCHEFORD HOUSE
28 ELWYN ROAD, MARCH, PE15 9BY
ODS code D81064
1.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
March Rail Station
RLY · March
- 5.8 miles
Manea Rail Station
RLY · Manea
- 8.1 miles
Four Horseshoes PH
BCT · Throckenholt
- 8.1 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Throckenholt
- 8.1 miles
Four Horseshoes PH
BCT · Throckenholt
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Fenland 009C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,584 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
1,566 published events cover 12 months, averaging 130.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 660 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.