Soham
TownTown in East Cambridgeshire, East of England.
Soham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Soham 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 2% of people in Soham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Soham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Soham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Soham at a rate of 55.5 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, 41 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Soham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (264), anti-social behaviour (147) and other crime (88).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Soham was 55.6 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 Soham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Soham has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Soham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Cambridgeshire 006A | 2,058 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 83.9% |
| East Cambridgeshire 006C | 2,012 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.6% |
| East Cambridgeshire 006D | 1,492 | 45.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
| East Cambridgeshire 006E | 2,462 | 44.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.1% |
| East Cambridgeshire 006F | 1,907 | 103.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 80.3% |
| East Cambridgeshire 006G | 1,303 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.8% |
| East Cambridgeshire 006H | 2,008 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 79.3% |
Your MP
- Charlotte CaneLiberal DemocratMP for Ely and East 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 Soham1
Middle areas in Soham1
Towns near Soham6
Soham in brief
Soham is a town in East Cambridgeshire, East of England.
About 11,325 people lived in Soham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £280,000 in 2025 across 177 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 55.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Soham was £280,000 in 2025.
Soham had 10,609 usual residents at the census.
About 2% of people in Soham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Soham, 87.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.