BARNWELL ROAD, CB5 8RG House Prices & Local Information

CB5 8RG is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on Barnwell Road, 0.5km from Ditton Fields in Cambridge (Cambridge). Administratively it sits within Abbey ward and the Cambridge constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, CB5 8RG is a suburban renting area with semi-detached homes and family households. By day, the area transitions to a metro suburban distribution industries character: ethnically mixed workforce in transportation and storage. An average age of 42 puts this squarely in mixed-family territory — professional couples, school-age children households, and established residents all sharing the streets. 44% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime rates are low here at 49 incidents per 1,000 residents — well below average and reassuring for families. Property: Average house prices are around £331k, up 87.9% year-on-year. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for CB5 8RG are sourced from Output Area E00090532 (shared with 6 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.