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Comberton

Comberton is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of around 2,346. It has 8 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Foxton, 7.9 km away. There were around 12 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly shoplifting. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Comberton area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the South Cambridgeshire area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 162,119 residents at roughly 180 people per km².

Council
South Cambridgeshire
County
Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
67/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 32nd of 294 English council areas — better than 89% of them.

Low crime96
Home affordability35
Affordable rents47
Good schools31
Life expectancy93
Low deprivation95
Employment94
Low council tax24

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

11°COvercast

  • Today: 11° / 8° · 50% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:59Sunset 16:27

9h 29m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 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

Crime

5 reported · August 2026▲ 400% YoY

  • Criminal damage & arson3
  • Anti-social behaviour1
  • Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: South Cambridgeshire · Cambridgeshire

Local policing priorities

  • Following our last community meeting held on 12 March the priorities set for the next three months are: - Knife crime focused on youths s…
  • Tackling violent crime in Orchard Park, Histon and Impington

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

Road safety

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)

Food hygiene

25 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 22 rated 4–5 ★ (18 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Cambridge South (7.8 km)
  • 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Cambridge South (7.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£441,410 average▲ 0.2% YoY

Across South Cambridgeshire · to 2026-08

Detached£635,858
Semi-detached£406,744
Terraced£331,993
Flat£200,909

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£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

Affordability

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

Property sales

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

EV charging

24 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: British Antarctic Survey (strictly For Employees and Visitors Use Only) (5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Swimming pools10
  • Sports pitches22
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

162,119 residents in South Cambridgeshire · 180/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • 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

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,536 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,691
B £1,973
C £2,254
D £2,536
E £3,100
F £3,663
G £4,227
H £5,073

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

Schools

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)

Secondary schools:

  • Swavesey Village CollegeOutstanding
  • Cottenham Village CollegeGood
  • Linton Village CollegeGood
  • Bassingbourn Village College
  • Cambourne Village College
  • Comberton Village College
  • Impington Village College
  • Melbourn Village College
  • Sawston Village College

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

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Comberton - Village)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 42 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

351 applications decided

94.3% granted · 331 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Pippa Heylings

Liberal Democrat

South Cambridgeshire

Recent votes:

  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Carry-over extension motion
  • NoCourts and Tribunals Bill: Third Reading
  • AyeCourts and Tribunals Bill Report Stage: Amendment 18
  • AyeCourts and Tribunals Bill Report Stage: Amendment 1

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Con 2
  • LD 43

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Parks & greens15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

9,245 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

76% low-carbon electricity

Wind 41% · Gas 24% · Nuclear 17% · Solar 10%

103 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

9 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in CB23

  • Comberton Surgery
  • Bourn Surgery
  • Maple Surgery Bar Hill Health Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Cambridgeshire:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Comberton · 0.3 km

    Comberton is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, a few miles south-west of Cambridge.

  • Comberton Village College · 0.6 km

    Comberton Village College is an 11–18 mixed secondary school and sixth form with academy status on the edge of Comberton village in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. It opened in 1960 as a village college.

  • Toft, Cambridgeshire · 2.2 km

    Toft is a village situated in Cambridgeshire, England. It is approximately six miles to the west of Cambridge, and is situated within four miles of the M11 motorway. It has approximately 600 residents and 200 homes. C…

  • Lord's Bridge railway station · 2.3 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…

  • Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory · 2.4 km

    The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) is located near Cambridge, UK and is home to a number of the largest and most advanced aperture synthesis radio telescopes in the world, including the One-Mile Telescope,…

  • Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope · 2.5 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…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Comberton?
Comberton is a town in Cambridgeshire, England, in the South Cambridgeshire local authority.
What is the population of Comberton?
Comberton has an approximate settlement population of 2,346.
How deprived is Comberton?
The South Cambridgeshire local authority, which includes Comberton, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.