Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wittering Primary School is the nearest published school at 946 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE8 6HE
Wittering · Peterborough · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wittering
- Local authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- PE8
- Postcode sector
- PE8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE8 6HE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2005
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE8
- Postcode sector
- PE8 6
- Latitude
- 52.615600
- Longitude
- -0.446878
- British National Grid easting
- 505,250
- British National Grid northing
- 303,111
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Peterborough · E06000031
- Electoral ward
- Wittering · E05010826
- Parish or community
- E04001126
- Westminster constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire · E14001401
- Output area
- E00187608
- Lower layer super output area
- Peterborough 004D · E01015628
- Middle layer super output area
- Peterborough 004 · E02003240
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 PE8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 946 m
Wittering Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
Barnack CofE (Controlled) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.2 km
Stamford Junior School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 129
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 60
- Anti social behaviour 25
- Vehicle crime 11
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Public order 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE8 6 residents
- 8,648
Age bands in PE8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.8%
1,532 residents
771 residents
2,122 residents
2,404 residents
1,689 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
WANSFORD
OLD HILL FARM, YARWELL STREET, WANSFORD, PETERBOROUGH, PE8 6PL
ODS code K83017
4.4 km
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE STAMFORD
LAKESIDE HTHCARE STAMFORD, RYHALL ROAD, STAMFORD, PE9 1YA
ODS code C83007
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Brock Close
BCT · Wittering
- 2.5 miles
Black Swan Spinney
BCT · Wansford
- 2.5 miles
Black Swan Spinney
BCT · Wansford
- 2.5 miles
Abbot's Close
BCT · Stamford
- 2.5 miles
Abbot's Close
BCT · Stamford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Peterborough 004D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,165 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
129 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 60 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.