Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Helen's Primary School is the nearest published school at 266 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE17 3RQ
Holywell-cum-Needingworth · Huntingdonshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon
- Postcode district
- PE17
- Postcode sector
- PE17 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE17 3RQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE17
- Postcode sector
- PE17 3
- Latitude
- 52.357687
- Longitude
- 0.014738
- British National Grid easting
- 537,300
- British National Grid northing
- 275,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Huntingdonshire · E07000011
- Electoral ward
- Holywell-cum-Needingworth · E05011264
- Parish or community
- E04001692
- Westminster constituency
- Huntingdon · E14001298
- Output area
- E00091437
- Lower layer super output area
- Huntingdonshire 007C · E01018123
- Middle layer super output area
- Huntingdonshire 007 · E02003759
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 PE17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 266 m
St Helen's Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.3 km
Earith Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.1 km
Whitehall School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 147
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 48
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Vehicle crime 20
- Criminal damage and arson 14
- Other theft 11
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
OVER SURGERY
1 DRINGS CLOSE, OVER, CAMBRIDGE, CB24 5NZ
ODS code D81033
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 9.0 miles
Huntingdon Rail Station
RLY · Huntingdon
- 10.1 miles
Waterbeach Rail Station
RLY · Waterbeach
- 11.0 miles
Cambridge North Rail Station
RLY · Chesterton
- 11.9 miles
Manea Rail Station
RLY · Manea
- 12.3 miles
Cambridge Airport
GAT · Cambridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Huntingdonshire 007C, 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
25,702 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
147 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 48 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.