CB2 3AE Cambridge

Live postcode, introduced July 2017. Ward: Market. Region: East of England.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Cambridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,467 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,645£1,919£2,193£2,467£3,015£3,563£4,112£4,934

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (22% of about 730 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Historic Core (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 18.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsCambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–253.4 km
Shelford (Cambs) 222,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km
Bus stops24 stops within 400 m, 63 within 800 m; nearest Bene't Street Cambridge70 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge270 m
Car parks3 within 800 m; nearest Grand Arcade car park100 m
EV charging points14 within 1.6 km; nearest EVC Charging Station520 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN36.4 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Trumpington Street Medical Practice260 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots130 m
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery620 m
HospitalNuffeild Health Cambridge Hospital1.6 km
Police stationParkside Police Station700 m
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m; nearest Cash machine 32-33 Petty Cury Halifax90 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden11 within 800 m; nearest Christ's Pieces 4.8 ha250 m
Largest park within 800 mMidsummer Common 14 ha650 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 710 m²390 m
Playing fieldUniversity Rugby Ground 3.0 ha1.0 km
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,980 m²1.1 km

Within 800 m: 11 parks and gardens, 61 hectares in all.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 1,870 residents in 72 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age2240
Children under 15under 1%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)13%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented71%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work15%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)77%32%
Travel to work by car or van2%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualificationsunder 1%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification0%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Fisher Square.