CB2 postcode district: Cambridge and around

CB2 is a postcode district in Cambridgeshire, with 588 postcodes in use in 6 sectors. It has postcodes in Cambridge. It is split between 2 councils: Cambridge (566 postcodes) and South Cambridgeshire (22).

Postcodes in use: 588
Sectors: 6
Councils: 2 councils
Places: Cambridge

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

Every postcode in CB2, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 54
Some can get gigabit: 98
Every home and business can get gigabit: 376
Ofcom gives no figure: 60
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 588 postcodes in CB2 that ONS places, 54 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 98 have some that can, 376 can all get it and 60 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.1853, longitude 0.1231. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

54 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

CB2 0AA CB2 0AB CB2 0AD CB2 0AE CB2 0AF CB2 0AJ CB2 0AW CB2 0AX CB2 0BA CB2 0BB CB2 0NT CB2 0NU

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

10 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CB2 0SJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
9 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CB2 7EH, is the one nearest the middle of them.
8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CB2 1SU, is the one nearest the middle of them.
5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CB2 1LJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in CB2?

Ofcom reports on 528 of the 588 postcodes in CB2. At 376 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit376 of 528

Postcodes where every home can get superfast484 of 528

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

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

Is CB2 at risk of flooding?

29 of the 588 postcodes in CB2 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 96 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 29 of 588 postcodes High: 49Medium: 47Low: 95Very low: 1

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, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and 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

What do homes sell for in CB2?

Homes in CB2 sold for a typical £553,750 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 170 sales, up 8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£553,750 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£512,500 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 8% on the 12 months before

Detached £920,000 27 sales
Semi-detached £690,000 23 sales
Terraced £639,000 50 sales
Flat or maisonette £382,751 70 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it