Cambourne
TownTown in South Cambridgeshire, East of England.
Cambourne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cambourne add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Cambourne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cambourne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cambourne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cambourne at a rate of 50.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 57 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cambourne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (280), other crime (113) and anti-social behaviour (90).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cambourne was 44.6 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Cambourne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cambourne has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cambourne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Cambridgeshire 020A | 1,263 | 104.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.5% |
| South Cambridgeshire 020B | 1,409 | 77.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 70.4% |
| South Cambridgeshire 020C | 1,420 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| South Cambridgeshire 020D | 1,320 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| South Cambridgeshire 020F | 2,021 | 20.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.8% |
| South Cambridgeshire 020G | 2,455 | 61.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.8% |
Your MP
- Ian SollomLiberal DemocratMP for St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Cambourne1
Middle areas in Cambourne1
Towns near Cambourne6
Cambourne in brief
Cambourne is a town in South Cambridgeshire, East of England.
About 12,220 people lived in Cambourne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £392,000 in 2025 across 194 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 50.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cambourne was £392,000 in 2025.
Cambourne had 11,071 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Cambourne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cambourne, 94.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.