South Cambridgeshire

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• Today: 11° / 7° · 27% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:00Sunset 16:25

9h 25m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

37US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

• 7.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

4 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences2
• Other theft1
• Other crime1

Neighbourhood team: South Cambridgeshire · Cambridgeshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

269 reported road collisions (2025)

94 killed or seriously injured · 419 casualties · 16.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

26 food businesses within 2 miles

• 22 rated 4–5 ★ (19 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Cambridge South (4.6 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£441,410 average▲ 0.2% YoY

Across South Cambridgeshire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,408 average monthly rent▲ 3.4% YoY

• 1 bed £1,010
• 2 bed £1,281
• 3 bed £1,530

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

9.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.3 times median annual pay (10.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,025 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (11.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (11.8 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

46 charging locations within ~8 km

• 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Trumpington Park & Ride (3.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools6
• Sports pitches11
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

162,119 residents in South Cambridgeshire · 180/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK13,882
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK12,150
• Net moves+1,732

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 281 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,536 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (30% of 74,050)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

85 schools · 25,940 pupils

60 primary · 9 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 26 of 31 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

76 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Cambridgeshire

595 CQC-registered services

• Care homes139
• GP practices108
• Dentists128
• Homecare agencies139
• Hospitals & hospices20

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cambridgeshire

• Within the Green Belt
• 25 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

351 applications decided

94.3% granted · 331 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Liberal Democrat majority

• Con 2
• LD 43

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,245 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

10 jobs advertised · £37,083 avg

e.g. HGV 1 Driver Earn up to £25.06 P/H, Tesco Colleague - Phone Shops - Wisbech Extra, Personal Trainer/Fitness Coach - Wisbech

Source: Adzuna

£910 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£32,205 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

53% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 81,055 certificates

8.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 86 yrs women · 82.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Cambridgeshire): 61.5 women · 62.3 men

55% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Cambridgeshire:

• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks442 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills227 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND170 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth127 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately124 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Ryle Telescope · 0.4 km

  The Ryle Telescope was a linear east-west radio telescope array at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. In 2004, three of the telescopes were moved to create a compact two-dimensional array of telescopes at the ea…

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  Arcminute Microkelvin Imager · 0.4 km

  The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) consists of a pair of interferometric radio telescopes - the Small and Large Arrays - located at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory near Cambridge. AMI was designed, built a…

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  Barton, Cambridgeshire · 1.2 km

  Barton is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is about 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Cambridge, near junction 12 of the M11 motorway.

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  Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope · 1.4 km

  The Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope (CLFST) is an east–west aperture synthesis radio telescope currently operating at 151 MHz. It consists of 60 tracking yagis on a 4.6 km baseline, giving 776 simultaneous…

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  Lord's Bridge railway station · 1.7 km

  Lord's Bridge was a railway station on the Varsity Line which ran between Oxford and Cambridge. Situated in the north of the parish of Harlton on the western outskirts of Cambridge, it was the penultimate station befo…

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  Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope · 1.8 km

  COAST, the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope, is a multi-element optical astronomical interferometer with baselines of up to 100 metres, which uses aperture synthesis to observe stars with angular resolut…

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