Postcodes in Cambridge District

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This article covers information about postcodes in Cambridge's local authority district. Cambridge is an administrative area in Cambridgeshire County. Cambridge district is further divided into 14 Wards.

Below is a complete list of Cambridge Postcodes, it has 2947 active postcodes. Cambridge contains approximately 46680 residential properties with a population of about 123791.

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Cambridge Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 123791
Addresses / Property Count 46680
Active Postcodes 2947
County Cambridgeshire
No Of Wards in Cambridge 14

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. Cambridge is a local authority district in Cambridgeshire county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

Wards in Cambridge

There are 14 wards in the district. Below is a list of the wards. You can click on any ward link to view the postcodes of that ward.

Abbey Arbury Castle Cherry Hinton Coleridge East Chesterton King's Hedges Market Newnham Petersfield Queen Edith's Romsey Trumpington West Chesterton

View Map Of Cambridge Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Cambridge, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of Cambridge postcodes


showing 1950-2000 of 2947 active postcodes in Cambridge
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
CB5 8LN Abbey 52.21284500 0.15402100
CB5 8LP Abbey 52.21222900 0.16095700
CB5 8LR Abbey 52.21207300 0.15935600
CB5 8LS Abbey 52.21192100 0.15980200
CB5 8LT Abbey 52.21197500 0.15784300
CB5 8LU Abbey 52.20922100 0.15699200
CB5 8LW Abbey 52.21347500 0.14756700
CB5 8LX Abbey 52.21037600 0.15630200
CB5 8LY Abbey 52.20778700 0.15824000
CB5 8LZ Abbey 52.21169200 0.15639400
CB5 8NA Abbey 52.21118500 0.15901800
CB5 8NB Abbey 52.21134700 0.15728600
CB5 8ND Abbey 52.20806700 0.16088700
CB5 8NE Abbey 52.20860300 0.15931900
CB5 8NF Abbey 52.20890700 0.15892400
CB5 8NG Abbey 52.20965000 0.15912100
CB5 8NH Abbey 52.21010200 0.15847000
CB5 8NJ Abbey 52.21080500 0.15837200
CB5 8NL Abbey 52.21016700 0.16033200
CB5 8NN Abbey 52.21125200 0.16151100
CB5 8NP Abbey 52.21010200 0.16192400
CB5 8NQ Abbey 52.20948200 0.15795700
CB5 8NR Abbey 52.21220700 0.16040100
CB5 8NS Abbey 52.21417600 0.14612200
CB5 8NT Abbey 52.20928800 0.15459400
CB5 8NU Abbey 52.21212500 0.16071800
CB5 8NW Abbey 52.21093000 0.16190600
CB5 8NY Market 52.20971300 0.13591000
CB1 7AA Coleridge 52.18875500 0.13876700
CB1 7AB Queen Edith's 52.18793000 0.13912300
CB1 7AD Queen Edith's 52.18767600 0.13924200
CB1 7AF Queen Edith's 52.18767000 0.14055800
CB1 7AG Coleridge 52.18850800 0.14071400
CB1 7AJ Coleridge 52.18802800 0.14288500
CB1 7AL Coleridge 52.18788700 0.14397800
CB1 7AN Coleridge 52.18765200 0.14551700
CB1 7AP Queen Edith's 52.17967400 0.14811700
CB1 7AR Queen Edith's 52.18556300 0.14986200
CB1 7AS Queen Edith's 52.18599900 0.14940200
CB1 7AT Queen Edith's 52.18536500 0.15061500
CB1 7AU Coleridge 52.18701700 0.14975800
CB1 7AW Coleridge 52.18738000 0.14738900
CB1 7AX Queen Edith's 52.17966300 0.14772200
CB5 8NZ Market 52.20981800 0.13655900
CB5 8PA Abbey 52.21297900 0.15754000
CB5 8PB Abbey 52.21294700 0.16443200
CB5 8PD Abbey 52.21719900 0.15689600
CB5 8PF Abbey 52.21469900 0.16229400
CB5 8PH Abbey 52.21357500 0.16330800
CB5 8PJ Abbey 52.21562200 0.16618700
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