Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. St John's Church School is the nearest published school at 399 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE2 5FN
Orton Waterville · Peterborough · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Peterborough
- Ward
- Orton Waterville
- Local authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- PE2
- Postcode sector
- PE2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE2 5FN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE2
- Postcode sector
- PE2 5
- Latitude
- 52.538825
- Longitude
- -0.295688
- British National Grid easting
- 515,687
- British National Grid northing
- 294,803
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Peterborough · E06000031
- Electoral ward
- Orton Waterville · E05010819
- Parish or community
- E04001116
- Westminster constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire · E14001401
- Output area
- E00079110
- Lower layer super output area
- Peterborough 023A · E01015643
- Middle layer super output area
- Peterborough 023 · E02006878
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 PE2
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 41, Sayer Court, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, PE2 5FN | 17 September 2001 | £28,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 399 m
St John's Church School
Voluntary aided school
- 557 m
Winyates Primary School
Community school
- 726 m
Ormiston Bushfield Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,885
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 740
- Anti social behaviour 267
- Criminal damage and arson 188
- Shoplifting 110
- Other theft 103
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 49
- Postcode households
- 43
- Residents per household
- 1.1
- PE2 5 residents
- 15,915
12 female, 37 male
Age bands in PE2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
3,313 residents
1,762 residents
4,359 residents
3,896 residents
2,761 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PE2 5 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
8
within 5 km
WILLOW TREE SURGERY
ORTON GOLDHAY, PETERBOROUGH, PE2 5RQ
ODS code D81629
818 m
NENE VALLEY AND HODGSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
NENE VALLEY & HODGSON MED, CLAYTON, ORTON GOLDHAY, PETERBOROUGH, PE2 5GP
ODS code Y07059
1.3 km
HAMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
UNIT 6B, SERPENTINE GREEN, HAMPTON, PETERBOROUGH, PE7 8DR
ODS code D81630
2.2 km
BOTOLPH BRIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
BOTOLPH BRIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH, SUGAR WAY, WOODSTON, PETERBOROUGH, PE2 9QB
ODS code Y00486
3.5 km
YAXLEY GROUP PRACTICE
LANDSDOWNE ROAD, YAXLEY, PETERBOROUGH, PE7 3JL
ODS code D81031
3.9 km
THORPE ROAD
64 THORPE ROAD, PETERBOROUGH, PE3 6AP
ODS code D81615
4.6 km
OLD FLETTON SURGERY
RECTORY GARDENS, OLD FLETTON, PETERBOROUGH, PE2 8AY
ODS code D81029
4.7 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
144 - 146 MAYORS WALK, PETERBOROUGH, PE3 6HA
ODS code D81645
5.0 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
- 1.4 miles
Ferry Meadows (Nene Valley Railway)
MET · Ferry Meadows
- 1.4 miles
Ferry Meadows (Nene Valley Railway)
PLT · Ferry Meadows
- 1.5 miles
Redhouse Crescent
BCT · Hampton Vale
- 1.6 miles
Redhouse Crescent
BCT · Hampton Vale
- 1.6 miles
Orton Mere (Nene Valley Railway)
MET · Orton Longueville
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Peterborough 023A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,544 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 6
- Medium risk addresses
- 22
- Low risk addresses
- 16
- 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
Recorded crime
1,885 published events cover 12 months, averaging 157.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 740 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.