MK18 5BS

Buckingham · Buckinghamshire · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Buckingham
Local authority: Buckinghamshire
Constituency: Buckingham and Bletchley
Postcode district: MK18
Postcode sector: MK18 5

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
MK18 5AY	363 m
MK18 5BB	642 m
MK18 5BP	691 m
MK18 5BE	763 m
MK18 5BD	811 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: MK18 5BS
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 March 2018
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: MK
Postcode district: MK18
Postcode sector: MK18 5
Latitude: 52.061266
Longitude: -0.971025
British National Grid easting: 470,640
British National Grid northing: 240,819

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South East · E12000008
Local authority district: Buckinghamshire · E06000060
Electoral ward: Buckingham · E05015940
Parish or community: E04001503
Westminster constituency: Buckingham and Bletchley · E14001141
Output area: E00089263
Lower layer super output area: Buckinghamshire 001C · E01033951
Middle layer super output area: Buckinghamshire 001 · E02003652

Postcode source versions

Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence

Explore MK18

Schools

Within 5 km of this postcode

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Open schools: 6
Primary: 2
Secondary: 1

Whittlebury Church of England Primary School

Voluntary controlled school
3.2 km
Akeley Wood Senior School

Other independent school
3.7 km
Silverstone UTC

University technical college
3.8 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 4
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Burglary 1
Other theft 1
Vehicle crime 1
Violence and sexual offences 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 2; 1 female, 1 male
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
MK18 5 residents: 2,261

Age bands in MK18 5

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 18.4%; 418 residents
Age 15 to 24: 24.2%; 551 residents
Age 25 to 44: 13.8%; 313 residents
Age 45 to 64: 26.5%; 602 residents
Age 65 and over: 17.1%; 389 residents

This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK18 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.

Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.

Fixed broadband coverage

Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.

Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 0%

Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Lovell Turn

BCT · Lillingstone Lovell
37 m
Brookside

BCT · Lillingstone Lovell
794 m
Tilehouse Turn

BCT · Lillingstone Dayrell
1.3 km
Tilehouse Turn

BCT · Lillingstone Dayrell
1.3 km
The Bull & Butcher PH

BCT · Akeley
3.1 km

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 001C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.

Overall IMD decile

5 of 10

Overall England rank

14,638 of 33,755

Income: 10 of 10
Employment: 9 of 10
Education and skills: 7 of 10
Health and disability: 7 of 10
Crime: 10 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 1 of 10

These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 0
Medium risk addresses: 0
Low risk addresses: 0
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

Schools

6 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Whittlebury Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 3.2 km.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 1 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.