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Stetchworth

Stetchworth is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of around 704. It has 10 bus stops, the nearest railway station is Dullingham (2.4 km). There were around 5 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Stetchworth area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the East Cambridgeshire area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 87,764 residents at roughly 135 people per km².

Council
East Cambridgeshire
County
Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South East Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
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My Area Score

Good

Ranked 88th of 294 English council areas — better than 70% of them.

Low crime97
Home affordability29
Affordable rents49
Good schools4
Life expectancy75
Low deprivation82
Employment86
Low council tax37

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° / 7° · 18% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:59Sunset 16:24

9h 25m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

46US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.2% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

4 reported · August 2026▲ 100% YoY

  • Anti-social behaviour1
  • Other theft1
  • Possession of weapons1
  • Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: East Cambridgeshire · Cambridgeshire

Local policing priorities

  • Using a combination of your feedback and our own data, we have set the below as the top three things your local neighbourhood policing te…
  • Theft from shops in Ely

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

Road safety

113 reported road collisions (2025)

35 killed or seriously injured · 152 casualties · 12.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

19 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 18 rated 4–5 ★ (17 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Dullingham (2.4 km)
  • 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Dullingham (2.4 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£340,059 average▲ 2% YoY

Across East Cambridgeshire · to 2026-08

Detached£482,586
Semi-detached£323,642
Terraced£272,675
Flat£169,212

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,038 average monthly rent▲ 0.5% YoY

  • 1 bed £732
  • 2 bed £958
  • 3 bed £1,168

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

Affordability

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

Property sales

1,118 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: 169.9p · Asda (10 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 198.9p · Asda (10 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

15 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Newmarket Racecourse 2 (4.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools2
  • Sports pitches8
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

87,764 residents in East Cambridgeshire · 135/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,541
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,072
  • Net moves+1,469

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,485 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,657
B £1,933
C £2,209
D £2,485
E £3,037
F £3,590
G £4,142
H £4,970

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

Schools

40 schools · 14,415 pupils

29 primary · 5 secondary · 6 other

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

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

Secondary schools:

  • Soham Village CollegeOutstanding
  • Bottisham Village CollegeRequires improvement
  • Vista Academy LittleportInadequate
  • Ely College
  • Witchford Village College

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · East 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

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

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

Planning decisions

166 applications decided

96.4% granted · 160 granted, 6 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Charlotte Cane

Liberal Democrat

Ely and East Cambridgeshire

Recent votes:

  • AyeOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative majority

  • Con 15
  • LD 12
  • Oth 1

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Parks & greens6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,645 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£786 median full-time weekly pay

2.2% 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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

64% low-carbon electricity

Wind 37% · Gas 35% · Nuclear 15% · Solar 7%

145 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.5 yrs men

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

53% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

7 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in CB8

  • Wickhambrook Surgery
  • Orchard House Surgery
  • The Rookery Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

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

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

Notable places nearby

  • Stetchworth · 0.1 km

    Stetchworth is a small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) to the south of the horse-racing centre of Newmarket and around 12 miles (19 km) east of Cambridge.

  • Dullingham · 1.2 km

    Dullingham is a small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire, England. It is situated 4 miles (6 km) south of Newmarket and 14 miles (23 km) east of Cambridge.

  • Woodditton · 2.3 km

    Woodditton is a village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire, England. The other settlements in the parish are Ditton Green, Little Ditton and Saxon Street. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population w…

  • Dullingham railway station · 2.3 km

    Dullingham is a railway station that serves the village of Dullingham in Cambridgeshire, England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west of the centre of the village. It is also the nearest railway station to the town…

  • Westley Waterless · 3.0 km

    Westley Waterless is a small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire, England, 5 miles south west of Newmarket.

  • Burrough Green · 3.3 km

    Burrough Green is a village and parish in Cambridgeshire, England. The population of the village at the 2011 census was 378. The soil is various; subsoil, clay and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. T…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Stetchworth?
Stetchworth is a town in Cambridgeshire, England, in the East Cambridgeshire local authority.
What is the population of Stetchworth?
Stetchworth has an approximate settlement population of 704.
How deprived is Stetchworth?
The East Cambridgeshire local authority, which includes Stetchworth, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.