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 589 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE17 3XA
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 3XA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE17
- Postcode sector
- PE17 3
- Latitude
- 52.352963
- Longitude
- 0.009663
- British National Grid easting
- 536,969
- British National Grid northing
- 274,665
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
- E04001677
- Westminster constituency
- Huntingdon · E14001298
- Output area
- E00091429
- Lower layer super output area
- Huntingdonshire 007D · E01018124
- 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
- 589 m
St Helen's Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.6 km
Earith Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.5 km
Whitehall School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 105
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 37
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Vehicle crime 17
- Other theft 8
- Burglary 7
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
OVER SURGERY
1 DRINGS CLOSE, OVER, CAMBRIDGE, CB24 5NZ
ODS code D81033
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 8.7 miles
Huntingdon Rail Station
RLY · Huntingdon
- 10.1 miles
Waterbeach Rail Station
RLY · Waterbeach
- 10.9 miles
Cambridge North Rail Station
RLY · Chesterton
- 12.1 miles
Cambridge Airport
GAT · Cambridge
- 12.3 miles
Cambridge Rail Station
RLY · Cambridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Huntingdonshire 007D, 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
26,224 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
105 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 37 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.