Down Field

20°CLight rain shower

• Today: 23° / 13° · 46% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 18° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:26Sunset 19:23

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stanford-le-Hope Roadside, United Kingdom

10 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences7
• Anti-social behaviour1
• Criminal damage & arson1
• Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: East Cambridgeshire · Cambridgeshire

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

133 reported road collisions (2024)

45 killed or seriously injured · 206 casualties · 15.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

76 food businesses within 2 miles

• 63 rated 4–5 ★ (57 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Soham (2.5 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£344,211 average▲ 6.1% YoY

Across East Cambridgeshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,035 average monthly rent▲ 0.6% YoY

• 1 bed £729
• 2 bed £955
• 3 bed £1,163

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

10.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.0 times median annual pay (9.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 169.9p · ESSO (11.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · ESSO (11.3 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

9 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Clay Street Car Park 1 (1.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

87,764 residents in East Cambridgeshire · 135/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 266 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,485 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (28% of 41,350)

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

40 schools · 14,415 pupils

29 primary · 5 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 13 of 18 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (72%)

37inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

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

595 CQC-registered services

• Care homes141
• GP practices108
• Dentists128
• Homecare agencies137
• Hospitals & hospices20

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cambridgeshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 23 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

136 applications decided

89% granted · 121 granted, 15 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Charlotte Cane

Liberal Democrat

Ely and East Cambridgeshire

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Con 15
• LD 12
• Oth 1

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

• Schools2
• Parks & greens17
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,520 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£786 median full-time weekly pay

2.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,657 disposable income per head (2024)

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

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 44,555 certificates

10.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

88% low-carbon electricity

Wind 56% · Nuclear 18% · Gas 11% · Biomass 10%

55 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.5 yrs men

53% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.0
• Feeling worthwhile8.3
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.3

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Ely and East Cambridgeshire:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership476 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s421 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership308 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office298 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test287 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• 
  Soham Wet Horse Fen · 0.9 km

  Soham Wet Horse Fen is a 33.8-hectare (84-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Soham in Cambridgeshire. A 3.6-hectare (8.9-acre) field in the north-west corner is managed by the Wildlife Trust…

• Burwell Tramway · 1.4 km

  Burwell Tramway was a 2.5 miles (4.0 km) standard gauge industrial tramway which ran from the Ely-Newmarket line, just south of the Soham-Wicken A1123 road, to industries just north of Burwell Lode. As well as servin…

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  Soham Village College · 1.6 km

  Soham Village College is a secondary school with academy status located in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. It has around 1,400 pupils, aged 11 to 16. Although its wide catchment area does not include Ely, some pupils…

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  Fordham, Cambridgeshire · 1.6 km

  Fordham is a village in rural Cambridgeshire, England. Fordham is part of the East Cambridgeshire district. It is four miles north of Newmarket, as well as being close to the settlements of Soham, Burwell, Isleham, Mi…

• Soham Abbey · 2.0 km

  Soham Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon monastery in Soham, which at the time was in the Kingdom of East Anglia. Constructed by St Felix of Burgundy during the early part of the 7th century, it was the first Roman Christian si…

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  Soham · 2.0 km

  Soham is a town and civil parish in the district of East Cambridgeshire, in Cambridgeshire, England, just off the A142 between Ely and Newmarket. Its population was 12,336 at the 2021 census.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)