CB8 postcode district: Newmarket and around

CB8 is a postcode district mostly in Suffolk, with 1,074 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Newmarket and Exning. It is split between 3 councils: West Suffolk (773 postcodes), East Cambridgeshire (280) and South Cambridgeshire (21). 773 are in Suffolk and 301 in Cambridgeshire.

Postcodes in use: 1,074
Sectors: 5
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 2 places

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

Every postcode in CB8, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 59
In use before 2020: 1,015
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,074 postcodes in CB8 that ONS places, 59 are new since 2020 and 1,015 were in use before 2020.

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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 210 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 52.2310, longitude 0.4289. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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

The 5 newest postcodes

CB8 7USJuly 2026 CB8 7WYJuly 2026 CB8 7YQJune 2026 CB8 1HWMay 2026 CB8 7ZBApril 2026

Where the new postcodes lie together

12 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. CB8 7US, is the newest of them.
8 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. CB8 1HW, is the newest of them.
5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. CB8 7GY, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in CB8?

Ofcom reports on 1,027 of the 1,074 postcodes in CB8. At 582 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 16 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit582 of 1,027

Postcodes where every home can get superfast890 of 1,027

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband16 of 1,027

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 CB8 at risk of flooding?

168 of the 1,074 postcodes in CB8 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 1,044 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 168 of 1,074 postcodes High: 859Medium: 185Low: 300Very low: 118

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 CB8?

Homes in CB8 sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 397 sales, down 7.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£325,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£350,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 7.1% on the 12 months before

Detached £515,000 131 sales
Semi-detached £325,000 106 sales
Terraced £245,500 120 sales
Flat or maisonette £178,250 40 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