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King's Dyke

King's Dyke is a town or village in Cambridgeshire, England. It has 5 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Whittlesea, 3.5 km away. There were around 2 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly anti-social behaviour. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the King's Dyke area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Fenland area is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 102,459 residents at roughly 188 people per km².

Council
Fenland
County
Cambridgeshire
Constituency
North East Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
46/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 180th of 294 English council areas — better than 39% of them.

Low crime51
Home affordability63
Affordable rents63
Good schools68
Life expectancy37
Low deprivation16
Employment32
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

21°COvercast

  • Today: 23° / 13° · 49% rain
  • Tomorrow: 23° / 17° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:25

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

Crime

2 reported · July 2026 50% YoY

  • Anti-social behaviour1
  • Burglary1

Neighbourhood team: March · Cambridgeshire

Local policing priorities

  • Using a combination of your feedback and our own data, we have set the below priorities for your local neighbourhood policing team in the…

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

Road safety

143 reported road collisions (2024)

38 killed or seriously injured · 197 casualties · 14 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

74 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 68 rated 4–5 ★ (64 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Whittlesea (3.9 km)
  • 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Whittlesea (4.0 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£223,168 average 1.9% YoY

Across Fenland · to 2026-06

Detached£307,943
Semi-detached£203,721
Terraced£159,476
Flat£90,795

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£840 average monthly rent 3.7% YoY

  • 1 bed £625
  • 2 bed £804
  • 3 bed £976

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

Affordability

7.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.4 times median annual pay (7.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (2.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · Morrisons (8.1 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

26 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: 4001342 (3.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Population

102,459 residents in Fenland · 188/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 60%
  • 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 51 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

7% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,538 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (36% of 48,110)

A £1,692
B £1,974
C £2,256
D £2,538
E £3,102
F £3,666
G £4,230
H £5,075

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

Schools

47 schools · 13,993 pupils

31 primary · 4 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 23 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

38inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Thomas Clarkson AcademyGood
  • Neale-Wade AcademyRequires improvement
  • Sir Harry Smith Community College
  • The Wisbech Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Fenland

Care & health services

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

Planning decisions

159 applications decided

86.8% granted · 138 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Council control

Conservative majority

  • Con 35
  • LD 2
  • Oth 6

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

Amenities nearby

Amenity data is being compiled for this area.

Local businesses

4,335 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

£688 median full-time weekly pay

3.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,333 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,212 certificates

10.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Health

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.2
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North East Cambridgeshire:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Must Farm · 0.2 km

    Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire, England. The settlement is exceptionally well preserved because of its sudd…

  • Flag Fen · 2.4 km

    Flag Fen, east of Peterborough, England, is a Bronze Age site which was constructed about 3,500 years ago and consists of more than 60,000 timbers arranged in five very long rows, creating a wooden causeway across the…

  • Stanground North · 2.7 km

    Stanground North is a former civil parish in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The 2001 census recorded a population of zero. The parish, which covered open fields on a fl…

  • Stanground · 2.9 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…

  • Whittlesey Rural District · 3.0 km

    Whittlesey was a rural district in the Isle of Ely from 1894 to 1926. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Whittlesey rural sanitary district, and consisted of one civil parish – Whittlesey Rural.

  • Stanground Wash · 3.1 km

    Stanground Wash is a 26 hectare nature reserve in Stanground, a suburb of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is King's Dyke?
King's Dyke is a town in Cambridgeshire, England, in the Fenland local authority.
How deprived is King's Dyke?
The Fenland local authority, which includes King's Dyke, is among the most deprived areas in England on the IoD2019.