Cambridgeshire County Council

Bins, council tax and planning, and what the council covers

Cambridgeshire County Council is the county council for Cambridgeshire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 5 district councils. ONS places 17,599 postcodes in use in Cambridgeshire, in 33 postcode districts across 5 postcode areas.

89% of homes and businesses in Cambridgeshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 28,589 homes and businesses in Cambridgeshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
10
Postcodes in use
17,599
Postcode districts
33
District councils
5

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Its website

Cambridgeshire County Council

cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Cambridgeshire County Council's own website

Each link goes straight to the page on the council's own website for that task. We opened every one on 14 October 2026.

Roads and parking

Schools

Care, support and libraries

Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for Cambridgeshire County Council. GOV.UK lists 11. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 1 page did not open for us. We left it out rather than send you to a page we could not see. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in Cambridgeshire?

Across Cambridgeshire, 89% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 80% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre80% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)89% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)98% can get it
Cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s)Under 1%

For one street, look up its postcode: each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How many homes in Cambridgeshire are at risk of flooding?

Across Cambridgeshire, the Environment Agency puts 28,589 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3,238 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 3,238 postcodes High: 5,611Medium: 22,978Low: 15,601Very low: 1,700

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them. It leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Surface water

In Cambridgeshire the Environment Agency counts 18,492 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 14,664 at medium risk and 39,724 at low risk. Surface water is rain that cannot drain away fast enough.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Surface Water, properties at risk by local authority, version 2025-09, listed 18 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

District councils in Cambridgeshire

Bins, council tax and planning are run by the district, borough or city council for each part of Cambridgeshire.

Cambridge council, postcodes in use:2,958East Cambridgeshire council, postcodes in use:2,198Fenland council, postcodes in use:3,029Huntingdonshire council, postcodes in use:5,244South Cambridgeshire council, postcodes in use:4,170

Postcode districts with postcodes in Cambridgeshire

Counted from the ONS Postcode Directory. A postcode district is drawn for sorting post, so many cross a council's edge.

Its postcode areas

CB postcode area: Cambridge, postcodes in use here:8,520 of 11,252IP postcode area: Ipswich, postcodes in use here:1 of 21,951MK postcode area: Milton Keynes, postcodes in use here:3 of 16,215PE postcode area: Peterborough, postcodes in use here:8,245 of 27,768SG postcode area: Stevenage, postcodes in use here:830 of 12,179

Beside each area: how many of its postcodes in use are in Cambridgeshire.

Towns and villages

CambridgeHuntingdonSt NeotsWisbechMarchSt IvesElyWhittleseyCambourneChatterisSohamYaxleyGodmanchesterRamseyHiston and ImpingtonLittleportBrampton, HuntingdonshireSawstonWimblington and DoddingtonSawtryGreat Shelford and StaplefordMelbournCottenhamBurwell

The 24 with the most postcodes in Cambridgeshire, of 58. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Cambridgeshire?

A council's edge does not follow postcodes exactly. Check the postcode.

All councils, A to Z

What Cambridgeshire covers: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Its name, website and own pages: GOV.UK, Local authority services, downloaded 14 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; every link opened on 14 October 2026. See all our data sources

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