Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Tannery Drift School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG8 9NL
Bassingbourn · South Cambridgeshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bassingbourn
- Local authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG8 9NL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 9
- Latitude
- 52.047972
- Longitude
- -0.069222
- British National Grid easting
- 532,500
- British National Grid northing
- 240,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- South Cambridgeshire · E07000012
- Electoral ward
- Bassingbourn · E05011285
- Parish or community
- E04001815
- Westminster constituency
- South Cambridgeshire · E14001481
- Output area
- E00091948
- Lower layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 019C · E01018228
- Middle layer super output area
- South Cambridgeshire 019 · E02003793
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
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.8 km
Tannery Drift School
Community school
- 3.1 km
Bassingbourn Primary School
Community school
- 3.1 km
Bassingbourn Village College
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Other theft 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG8 9 residents
- 5,807
Age bands in SG8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.2%
937 residents
506 residents
1,545 residents
1,513 residents
1,208 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
ROYSIA SURGERY
BURNS ROAD, ROYSTON, SG8 5PT
ODS code E82132
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Orpington Road
BCT · Royston
- 1.1 miles
Hampshire Road
BCT · Royston
- 1.4 miles
Greenfield
BCT · Royston
- 1.4 miles
Gateway
BCT · Royston
- 1.4 miles
Greenfield
BCT · Royston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Cambridgeshire 019C, 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
23,018 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.