South Cambridgeshire is a constituency in the East of England region of England. The seat has been held by Pippa Heylings (Liberal Democrat) since July 2024.
Election data comes from UK Parliament. Turnout percentage is calculated by Project Open Gov from Parliament's turnout and electorate figures.
People and place
A population and household snapshot for South Cambridgeshire, using validated House of Commons Library constituency datasets.
Estimated population109,509
EstimateMid-2024 estimate
Region / nationEast of England
Age profile
0 to 1720.8% · 22,742 people
18 to 247.3% · 8,010 people
25 to 3411.1% · 12,133 people
35 to 4919.6% · 21,502 people
50 to 6419.8% · 21,680 people
65 and over21.4% · 23,442 people
Population figures are mid-2024 estimates from the House of Commons Library. Project Open Gov calculates the estimated population shown above by summing the six published age-band counts. View population source ↗
Home ownership and renting
Housing tenure shows how households in this constituency described their home at the most recent census.
42,956 householdsCensus 2021
Home owners66.9% · 28,732 households
Private renters14.6% · 6,264 households
Social renters16.6% · 7,133 households
Other tenure1.9% · 827 households
“Other tenure” combines shared ownership and households recorded as living rent free.
Housing-tenure figures come from the most recent census: 2021 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 2022 in Scotland. View housing-tenure source ↗
Household composition
A broad view of household types in this constituency. Project Open Gov uses the four broad groups supplied by the Commons Library so the presentation remains consistent across the UK.
42,955 householdsCensus 2021
One-person households26.4% · 11,355 households
Families with dependent children28.4% · 12,212 households
Other single-family households40.4% · 17,367 households
Other household types4.7% · 2,021 households
Household-composition figures come from the Commons Library constituency dataset. The source uses census data and Project Open Gov displays its broad household groups rather than attempting to harmonise the detailed categories itself. View household-composition source ↗
Disability and day-to-day activities
The source records whether day-to-day activities are limited and uses separate person-level tables for England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
104,912 people in the source baseCensus 2021Source comparison: England & Wales
Day-to-day activities limited a lot5.4% · 5,673 people
Day-to-day activities limited a little9.6% · 10,081 people
Not disabled under the Equality Act85.0% · 89,158 people
Comparison note: the workbook uses different source terminology across the UK: England & Wales uses “Disabled under the Equality Act”, while Scotland and Northern Ireland use “Disabled” / “Non-disabled”. Project Open Gov therefore preserves the source categories and does not present them as one single like-for-like UK legal definition.
Disability figures come from the Commons Library constituency workbook. This profile uses the person-level tables only; the workbook also contains separate household-level disability tables which are not used here. View disability source ↗
This constituency in Parliament
A high-confidence subset of current-session parliamentary records from this constituency's current MP where the full constituency name is stated explicitly in the written question, debate title or recorded section.
This is not a complete record of every local issue raised in Parliament. Project Open Gov does not currently infer a constituency connection from the MP relationship alone, speech text, nearby place names or other local entities.
Written question30 June 2026
Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
Raised by Pippa Heylings MP
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to Question 546 from the hon. member for South Cambridgeshire.
Open UK Government and Parliament petitions that have reached at least 10,000 signatures nationally, ranked here by the number of signatures recorded in this constituency.
Petition signatures are not a poll and do not show what the constituency as a whole thinks. A person can also sign more than one petition.
Open petitionCloses 12 September 2026
Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership
Signatures in this constituency432
Signatures nationally244,689
Government response published · Debate scheduled for 29 June 2026
Signature counts come from the official UK Government and Parliament petitions data and may change while a petition remains open. Browse official petitions ↗
Funding and local projects
National Lottery grants awarded to organisations recorded in this parliamentary constituency since 4 July 2024.
The constituency is based on the recipient organisation recorded in the source data. The funded activity may sometimes take place across a wider area.
Grants recorded42
Total awarded£1,230,343
Most recent awards
National Lottery grantAwarded 3 June 2026
Cloudbound
Grant to individual
£29,695
Arts Council England · Arts
About this award
Cloudbound - Theatre - National Lottery Project Grants
National Lottery grantAwarded 15 May 2026
Early Years Inclusive Opera
Grant to individual
£14,750
Arts Council England · Arts
About this award
Early Years Inclusive Opera - Not discipline specific - National Lottery Project Grants
National Lottery grantAwarded 23 April 2026
Addressing Litlington’s Lack of Facility
Litlington Parish Council
£13,000
The National Lottery Community Fund · Charitable and Community including Health, Education and Environment
About this award
Litlington Parish Council - Children & Young People - National Lottery Awards for All England
National Lottery grantAwarded 14 April 2026
Before and Dafter / Anticipating Hindsight - creating two spoken word shows
Grant to individual
£25,000
Arts Council England · Arts
About this award
Before and Dafter / Anticipating Hindsight - creating two spoken word shows - Literature - National Lottery Project Grants
National Lottery grantAwarded 24 March 2026
St Peter’s Horningsea: From beneath the floor to the top of the tower.
Horningsea: St Peter
£100,239
The National Lottery Heritage Fund · Heritage
About this award
We aim to achieve a church that is safe for everyone to use, by repairing the floor in the North Aisle where it has collapsed. The unsafe floor means that currently the church cannot safely be used by the community for concerts, talks, exhibitions, cinema shows or by the church congregation. Two 10th Century tomb lids are embedded in Victorian tiles which are deteriorating due to the damp so they need to be preserved. The second limb is to make access to the Tower safe for those who need to use it including the Bell Ringers to maintain the bells, the servicing of the lightening conductor and roof alarm. Occasional access is required in respect of the bats which roost in the Tower and the birds who can get trapped in the Tower. We will then celebrate the completed repairs by offering a special programme of community activities
37 more awards are available.
Source: DCMS National Lottery Grants Database. The figures shown cover awards from 4 July 2024 to 1 July 2026. View official grants data ↗
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