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Brinkley population

391people · latest estimate

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · FSA register

Brinkley has a population of 391, making it the 119th largest place in Cambridgeshire.

#119
of 137 in Cambridgeshire

The other populations of Brinkley

The same name covers more than one area, and each has its own figure.

What you meanPopulationSource
The place itself
The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core.
391 GeoNames
The built-up area
Continuous development, where buildings sit less than 200m apart. Drawn from where the buildings are, not where the council boundary is.
370 ONS Census 2021 (2021)

Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place

Brinkley in context

4 km
south-west to West Wratting, the nearest larger town
26,665
people live within 10 km
#5,636
largest of 6,358 UK places
Brinkley in the UK

Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.

The centre of Brinkley sits in postcode district CB8.

Food and drink on the high street

Registered premisesCount
Pubs, bars and nightclubs (27.0 per 10,000 residents)1

Counts are registered food premises in the Brinkley built-up area (370 residents at the 2021 census), from the FSA food hygiene register, extracted 17 August 2026. The boundary is drawn from where the buildings are, so these figures cover the town itself rather than the wider council area, and no total is shown because the register also lists premises nobody would call a venue: school kitchens, care homes, warehouses. Compare towns →

Broadband

Availability% of homes
Gigabit-capable (1,000 Mbit/s+)98.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)98.7%
Unable to get 10 Mbit/s download1 home (0.6%)

Share of the 154 residential premises in this built-up area that the fixed network can serve at each speed, from Ofcom's Connected Nations coverage data (network state July 2025). Availability is what the line to a home can deliver if ordered, not what households actually subscribe to, and a full-fibre street where everyone bought the cheapest package shows 100% here. Percentile compares towns of 10,000+ residents. Compare towns →

Go deeper

Postcode district CB8
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

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