Melbourn · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
King James Academy Royston
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Icknield Walk First School
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Studlands Rise First School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
8 female, 6 male
1,540 residents
728 residents
2,071 residents
2,153 residents
1,852 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SG8 7 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km straight-line
ORCHARD SURGERY, NEW ROAD, MELBOURN, ROYSTON, SG8 6BX
ODS code D81018
2.9 km
BURNS ROAD, ROYSTON, SG8 5PT
ODS code E82132
3.0 km
Lambert Way
BCT · Royston
The Close
BCT · Royston
Dacre Green
BCT · Royston
Royston Road
BCT · Royston
Royston Road
BCT · Royston
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 018C, 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
24,460 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. King James Academy Royston is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Robbery with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.