Bar Hill
Bar Hill is covered by postcode district CB23. It is in the South Cambridgeshire council area, Cambridgeshire.
Every postcode in Bar Hill, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 3
- At medium risk at worst: 1
- At low risk at worst: 4
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 45
Of the 53 postcodes in Bar Hill that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 4 are at low risk at worst and 45 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. No boundary is drawn.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.2519, longitude 0.0205. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Bar Hill?
Homes sold for a typical £315,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 32 of the 52 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 8 of its 53 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Cambridge North, 9.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Bar Hill?
Homes in Bar Hill sold for a typical £315,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 45 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £325,000 from 55 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £415,000 13 sales
- Semi-detached £307,500 21 sales
- Terraced £264,000 11 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CB23 district, Bar Hill's main postcode district: a typical £395,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bar Hill: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Bar Hill?
2 of the 53 postcodes now in use in Bar Hill came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 55 homes sold in Bar Hill were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CB23 district, 15%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Bar Hill | Across the CB23 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 45 (0%) | 15 of 377 (4%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 55 (0%) | 89 of 587 (15%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Bar Hill?
Ofcom reports on 52 of the 53 postcodes in Bar Hill. At 32 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Bar Hill at risk of flooding?
8 of the 53 postcodes in Bar Hill 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 11 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Bar Hill?
The primary schools are at the postcodes in Bar Hill. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Bar Hill?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bar Hill is Cambridge North Rail Station, 9.9 km away in a straight line.
- Cambridge North Rail Station Railway station 9.9 kmDrive
- Cambridge Rail Station Railway station 10.2 kmDrive
- Cambridge South Rail Station Railway station 11.5 kmDrive
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Bar Hill?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Bar Hill. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Maple Surgery Bar Hill Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01954 780442 200 mWalk
- Sas - C&P - Mkgp Plus Ltd Phone 01954 780442 200 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Bar Hill safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 319 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bar Hill over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 28 September 2025
- 14 October 2025
- 29 November 2025
- 30 December 2025
- 36 January 2026
- 18 February 2026
- 31 March 2026
- 18 April 2026
- 21 May 2026
- 32 June 2026
- 45 July 2026
- 17 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 9, other crime 8, theft from the person 2, robbery 2, possession of weapons 2, bicycle theft 1.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Bar Hill?
- District, borough or city council
- South Cambridgeshire
- County council
- Cambridgeshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
- Police force area
- Cambridgeshire
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- MP
- Ian Sollom (Liberal Democrat)
All 53 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Bar Hill
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell South Cambridgeshire about council tax Council tax, on scambs.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Bar Hill
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Bar Hill postcodes
53 postcodes in use in Bar Hill, by district:
That district is in the CB postcode area.
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Places near Bar Hill
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Bar Hill's £315,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Bar Hill
- What is the postcode for Bar Hill?
- Postcode district CB23, with 53 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Bar Hill in?
- South Cambridgeshire, with Cambridgeshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Bar Hill?
- Ian Sollom (Liberal Democrat), for St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Bar Hill?
- A typical £315,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 45 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Bar Hill?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Bar Hill Community Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Northstowe Learning Community, 4.5 km away. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Bar Hill have a railway station?
- The nearest is Cambridge North station, 9.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Bar Hill?
- Ofcom reports on 52 of the 53 postcodes in Bar Hill. At 32 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Bar Hill at risk of flooding?
- 8 of the 53 postcodes in Bar Hill 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 11 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Bar Hill?
- 2 of the 53 postcodes now in use in Bar Hill came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 55 homes sold in Bar Hill were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CB23 district, 15%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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