Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Meldreth Primary School is the nearest published school at 436 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG8 6LY
Melbourn · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Melbourn
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG8 6LY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 6
- Latitude
- 52.091706
- Longitude
- 0.004197
- British National Grid easting
- 537,400
- British National Grid northing
- 245,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Melbourn · E05011300
- Parish or community
- E04001826
- Westminster constituency
- South Cambridgeshire · E14001481
- Output area
- E00187662
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 018F · E01018271
- Middle layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 018 · E02003792
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 SG8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 436 m
Meldreth Primary School
Community school
- 752 m
Aurora Meldreth Manor School
Other independent special school
- 1.1 km
Melbourn Village College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 222
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 86
- Anti social behaviour 34
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Public order 16
- Burglary 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG8 6 residents
- 7,680
Age bands in SG8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
1,368 residents
702 residents
1,816 residents
2,082 residents
1,750 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
ORCHARD SURGERY,MELBOURN
ORCHARD SURGERY, NEW ROAD, MELBOURN, ROYSTON, SG8 6BX
ODS code D81018
1.6 km
ROYSIA SURGERY
BURNS ROAD, ROYSTON, SG8 5PT
ODS code E82132
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Meldreth Rail Station
RLY · Meldreth
- 1.9 miles
Shepreth Rail Station
RLY · Shepreth
- 2.3 miles
Teasdale Close
BCT · Royston
- 2.3 miles
Teasdale Close
BCT · Royston
- 2.3 miles
Sassoon Drive
BCT · Royston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 018F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,293 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
222 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 86 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.