CB4 crime rate and statistics

The CB4 postcode district, in the CB (Cambridge) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 6,195 street-crime records for CB4 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 9.2% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 139.7 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 95.7 for Cambridgeshire Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

6,195

Latest month (August 2026)

565

Year-on-year

+9.2%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 508
October 2025 542
November 2025 439
December 2025 463
January 2026 496
February 2026 456
March 2026 544
April 2026 497
May 2026 539
June 2026 561
July 2026 585
August 2026 565

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

CB4

139.7

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

95.7

6,195 records and 44,360 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of CB4 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in CB4

Published street-crime records in CB4, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of CB4: the north-east 1,485, the north 1,355, the north-west 1,078, the west 1,075, the south-east 142, the south 90, the centre 84, the east 79, the south-west 25.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of CB4's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and CB4's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of CB4 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore CB4 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for CB4 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 5,197
2022 5,526
2023 5,538
2024 5,588
2025 5,904
2026 (part year) 4,243

Is CB4 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for CB4 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in CB4 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

CB4's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Cambridgeshire Constabulary (99.9%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.0%) and Bedfordshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in CB4

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
CB4 0 41
CB4 1 2,297
CB4 2 1,648
CB4 3 1,211
CB4 4 281
CB4 5 383
CB4 6 40
CB4 8 111
CB4 9 183

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 44,360 Census 2021 residents of CB4.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 22.7% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About CB4 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £400,000 (183)
2025 £443,000 (399)
2024 £450,000 (404)
2023 £450,000 (381)
2022 £420,000 (459)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £675,000 (15) £540,000 (49) £391,500 (66) £280,000 (53)
2025 £647,500 (32) £553,750 (106) £450,000 (160) £270,000 (101)
2024 £670,000 (37) £542,500 (110) £450,000 (149) £274,000 (108)
2023 £645,000 (42) £521,111 (103) £453,750 (140) £279,600 (96)
2022 £671,752 (48) £550,000 (101) £448,000 (162) £272,500 (148)

Schools and colleges

18 open establishments with a postcode in CB4, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 18 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Cambridge Regional College 16 plus Further education
Colleges Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
King's Hedges Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Arbury Primary School Primary Community school
Chesterton Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Kings Hedges Primary School Primary Community school
Mayfield Primary School Primary Community school
Milton Road Primary School Primary Community school
Orchard Park Community Primary School Primary Community school
Shirley Community Primary School Primary Community school
St Laurence Catholic Primary School Primary Academy converter
St Luke's CofE Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
The Grove Primary School Primary Community school
Chesterton Community College Secondary Academy converter
North Cambridge Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Cambridge Arts and Sciences (CATS and CSVPA) – Other independent school
Castle School, Cambridge – Community special school
OA - Cambridge – Academy alternative provision converter

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High40
Medium6
Low22
Very low2

Broadband

Share of the 905 postcodes in CB4 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit81.5%97.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)97.8%99.6%

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CrimeMapsUK. CB4 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/cb4/

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