The rich list: Neighbourhoods mapped as top earners have £40k more

THE gap between Cambridgeshire's richest and poorest neighbourhoods is growing, with those at the top having more than £40,000 more to spend a year than those at the bottom.

- By DAVID DUBAS-FISHER

Households in the Central & West Cambridge neighbourhood of Cambridge had an average disposable income of £71,600 after tax in the financial year ending 2023.

That makes the area Cambridgeshire's highest-earning neighbourhood, according to recent data released by the Office for National Statistics.

By contrast, Millfield & Bourges Boulevard in Peterborough had the lowest average income in the county.

Households in the neighbourhood had an average disposable income of just under £30,900 a year.

That is less than half that of Central & West Cambridge, and works out as an income gap of £40,700 a year.

When the data was last released for the financial year ending 2020, the gap between Cambridgeshire’s richest and poorest neighbourhoods was £21,000 a year, suggesting the income gap has nearly doubled in the space of just three years.