Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 8 secondary schools. Lime Academy Watergall is the nearest published school at 103 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE3 8HH
Bretton · Peterborough · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bretton
- Local authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- Peterborough
- Postcode district
- PE3
- Postcode sector
- PE3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE3 8HH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE3
- Postcode sector
- PE3 8
- Latitude
- 52.600106
- Longitude
- -0.283094
- British National Grid easting
- 516,379
- British National Grid northing
- 301,639
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Peterborough · E06000031
- Electoral ward
- Bretton · E05010806
- Parish or community
- E04001104
- Westminster constituency
- Peterborough · E14001425
- Output area
- E00078863
- Lower layer super output area
- Peterborough 009B · E01015596
- Middle layer super output area
- Peterborough 009 · E02003245
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 PE3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 8
- 103 m
Lime Academy Watergall
Academy sponsor led
- 315 m
Eyrescroft Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 591 m
Heltwate School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,104
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,144
- Shoplifting 611
- Anti social behaviour 272
- Criminal damage and arson 198
- Public order 191
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE3 8 residents
- 7,894
Age bands in PE3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.3%
1,746 residents
911 residents
2,402 residents
1,728 residents
1,226 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
BRETTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
RIGHTWELL, BRETTON, PETERBOROUGH, PE3 8DT
ODS code Y07057
1.1 km
WESTWOOD CLINIC
WICKEN WAY, WESTWOOD, PETERBOROUGH, PE3 7JW
ODS code D81073
1.4 km
THISTLEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
6-10 THISTLEMOOR ROAD, PETERBOROUGH, PE1 3HP
ODS code D81625
2.0 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
144 - 146 MAYORS WALK, PETERBOROUGH, PE3 6HA
ODS code D81645
2.8 km
CENTRAL MEDICAL CENTRE
ST.MARTINS STREET, PETERBOROUGH, PE1 3BF
ODS code D81631
2.9 km
THOMAS WALKER WESTGATE HEALTHCARE
THOMAS WALKER SURGERY, PRINCES STREET, PETERBOROUGH, PE1 2QP
ODS code Y07060
3.4 km
THORPE ROAD
64 THORPE ROAD, PETERBOROUGH, PE3 6AP
ODS code D81615
3.4 km
NIGHTINGALE MEDICAL CENTRE
DAMSON DRIVE, PETERBOROUGH, PE1 4FS
ODS code D81065
3.5 km
BOROUGHBURY MEDICAL CENTRE
CRAIG STREET, PETERBOROUGH, PE1 2EJ
ODS code D81026
3.6 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
164 PARK ROAD, PETERBOROUGH, PE1 2UF
ODS code Y07025
3.7 km
BOTOLPH BRIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
BOTOLPH BRIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH, SUGAR WAY, WOODSTON, PETERBOROUGH, PE2 9QB
ODS code Y00486
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 2.2 miles
Mariner Close
BCT · Gunthorpe
- 2.2 miles
Mariner Close
BCT · Gunthorpe
- 2.2 miles
Peterborough Rail Station
RLY · Peterborough
- 2.7 miles
Peterborough (Nene Valley Railway)
MET · Woodston
- 2.7 miles
Peterborough (Nene Valley Railway)
PLT · Woodston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Peterborough 009B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,358 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
3,104 published events cover 12 months, averaging 258.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,144 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.