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Farcet

Farcet is a settlement in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of around 1,000. It has 10 bus stops, one restaurant or café, and there were around 57 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly Violence & sexual offences. The nearest railway station is Peterborough (NVR), 3.8 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Farcet area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Huntingdonshire area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 180,832 residents at roughly 200 people per km².

Council
Huntingdonshire
County
Cambridgeshire
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
69/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 23rd of 294 English council areas — better than 92% of them.

Low crime82
Home affordability45
Affordable rents55
Good schools89
Life expectancy71
Low deprivation84
Employment82
Low council tax20

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°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 11° / 7° · 24% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:02Sunset 16:26

9h 23m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

42US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.1 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

63 reported · August 2026▲ 2% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences30
  • Anti-social behaviour17
  • Other theft6
  • Drugs3

2 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Huntingdon · Cambridgeshire

Local policing priorities

  • Using a combination of your feedback and our own data, we have set the below as the things your local neighbourhood policing teams across…
  • Vehicle ASB in Yaxley

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

Road safety

292 reported road collisions (2025)

89 killed or seriously injured · 409 casualties · 16.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

188 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 167 rated 4–5 ★ (150 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Peterborough (NVR) (3.8 km)
  • 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Peterborough (4.6 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£306,954 average▲ 1.1% YoY

Across Huntingdonshire · to 2026-08

Detached£479,672
Semi-detached£303,239
Terraced£241,239
Flat£148,395

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,057 average monthly rent▲ 3.7% YoY

  • 1 bed £745
  • 2 bed £967
  • 3 bed £1,170

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

Affordability

8.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.7 times median annual pay (8.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,639 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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (1.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Esso (7.1 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

37 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: Dobbies Garden Centre (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches14
  • Playgrounds9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

180,832 residents in Huntingdonshire · 200/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK12,049
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK10,220
  • Net moves+1,829

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 249 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,556 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (26% of 83,830)

A £1,704
B £1,988
C £2,272
D £2,556
E £3,124
F £3,693
G £4,261
H £5,113

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

Schools

77 schools · 25,478 pupils

62 primary · 7 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 30 of 31 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (97%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Abbey College, RamseyGood
  • Longsands AcademyGood
  • St Ivo AcademyGood
  • Ernulf Academy
  • Hinchingbrooke School
  • Sawtry Village Academy
  • St Peter's School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Huntingdonshire

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

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

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

Planning decisions

282 applications decided

90.1% granted · 254 granted, 28 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Sam Carling

Labour

North West Cambridgeshire

Recent votes:

  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 86: High value council tax surcharge
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 55: Value added tax (electric vehicle charging)
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat / Independent / Green coalition

  • Lab 1
  • Con 15
  • LD 21
  • Grn 2
  • Ref 9
  • Oth 4

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools5
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens4
  • Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

9,010 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

3 jobs advertised · £30,160 avg

e.g. Van Driver, Freelance Padel Coach, Padel Duty Manager

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£774 median full-time weekly pay

2.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,667 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

51% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 86,866 certificates

8.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

66% low-carbon electricity

Wind 37% · Gas 34% · Nuclear 15% · Solar 9%

139 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

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

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.6
  • Happiness yesterday7.3
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

Health services

8 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in PE7

  • Yaxley Group Practice
  • New Queen Street Surgery
  • Hampton Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North West Cambridgeshire:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Farcet · 0.2 km

    Farcet (/ˈfæsət/) is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Farcet lies approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Peterborough city centre, between Yaxley and the Peterborough suburb of Old Fletton. Farcet…

  • Stanground Academy · 1.4 km

    Stanground Academy is a co-educational academy school and specialist college for sport, in the city of Peterborough in the United Kingdom. As of 20 October 2023, the academy has a capacity of around 1,430 students, wi…

  • Stanground Newt Ponds · 1.4 km

    Stanground Newt Ponds is a 1-hectare (2.5-acre) nature reserve in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. The land was originally set…

  • Old Fletton Urban District · 1.5 km

    Old Fletton was an urban district in the county of Huntingdonshire and then Huntingdon and Peterborough. The urban district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and now forms part of the city…

  • Stanground · 1.9 km

    Stanground is a residential area of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. For electoral purposes, it comprises the Stanground South and Fletton & Stanground wards in the North West Cambrid…

  • Yaxley and Farcet railway station · 2.0 km

    Yaxley and Farcet railway station is a former station in Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, just south of Peterborough.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Farcet?
Farcet is a town in Cambridgeshire, England, in the Huntingdonshire local authority.
How deprived is Farcet?
The Huntingdonshire local authority, which includes Farcet, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.