Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Fowlmere Primary School is the nearest published school at 841 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG8 7FQ
Foxton · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Royston
- Ward
- Foxton
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG8 7FQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 7
- Latitude
- 52.086204
- Longitude
- 0.074333
- British National Grid easting
- 542,222
- British National Grid northing
- 245,123
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Foxton · E05011292
- Parish or community
- E04001784
- Westminster constituency
- South Cambridgeshire · E14001481
- Output area
- E00092010
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 018A · E01018241
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Shaw Close, Fowlmere, Royston, SG8 7FQ | 26 May 2021 | £10,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 841 m
Fowlmere Primary School
Community school
- 2.5 km
Thriplow CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Foxton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 63
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 19
- Anti social behaviour 16
- Burglary 11
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Other crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG8 7 residents
- 8,039
Age bands in SG8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
1,540 residents
728 residents
2,071 residents
2,153 residents
1,852 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.
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
1
within 5 km straight-line
ORCHARD SURGERY,MELBOURN
ORCHARD SURGERY, NEW ROAD, MELBOURN, ROYSTON, SG8 6BX
ODS code D81018
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 2.4 miles
Foxton Rail Station
RLY · Foxton
- 2.7 miles
Shepreth Rail Station
RLY · Shepreth
- 3.5 miles
Pinkeneys
BCT · Chrishall
- 3.5 miles
Pinkeneys
BCT · Chrishall
- 3.5 miles
Engleric
BCT · Chrishall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 018A, 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
25,939 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
63 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 19 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.