Cherry Hinton
WardSouth east Cambridge. About 9,442 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Cherry Hinton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cherry Hinton compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cherry Hinton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cherry Hinton at a rate of 76.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 110.7 per 1,000 people across Cambridge.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 61 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cherry Hinton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (282), anti-social behaviour (124) and other crime (115).
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.
Figures for the whole of Cambridge
These figures are published for the whole of Cambridge, not for each ward, so they describe all of Cambridge and not Cherry Hinton alone. See Cambridge
Cherry Hinton in brief
Cherry Hinton had 9,343 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Cherry Hinton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cherry Hinton, 98.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Cherry Hinton, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.