Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Selwyn Hall School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG8 6RG
Melbourn · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Royston
- 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 6RG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 6
- Latitude
- 52.108767
- Longitude
- 0.032402
- British National Grid easting
- 539,279
- British National Grid northing
- 247,551
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
- E04001837
- Westminster constituency
- South Cambridgeshire · E14001481
- Output area
- E00092158
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 018E · E01018270
- 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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Church Lane, Shepreth, Royston, SG8 6RG | 10 December 2002 | £925,000 |
| 4, Church Lane, Shepreth, Royston, SG8 6RG | 20 November 1998 | £441,000 |
| 2, Church Lane, Shepreth, Royston, SG8 6RG | 29 August 1997 | £280,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.0 km
Selwyn Hall School
Other independent special school
- 2.0 km
Foxton Primary School
Community school
- 2.2 km
Aurora Meldreth Manor School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 50
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 22
- Other theft 6
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Burglary 4
- Anti social behaviour 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SG8 6 residents
- 7,680
3 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SG8 6 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
2
within 5 km
ORCHARD SURGERY,MELBOURN
ORCHARD SURGERY, NEW ROAD, MELBOURN, ROYSTON, SG8 6BX
ODS code D81018
3.2 km
HARSTON SURGERY
11 CHURCH STREET, HARSTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB22 7NP
ODS code D81058
4.3 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
- 0.4 miles
Shepreth Rail Station
RLY · Shepreth
- 1.2 miles
Foxton Rail Station
RLY · Foxton
- 1.6 miles
Meldreth Rail Station
RLY · Meldreth
- 3.9 miles
Teasdale Close
BCT · Royston
- 3.9 miles
Teasdale Close
BCT · Royston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 018E, 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
26,412 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
50 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 22 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.