Property market
The five-year median is £18,474,844 from 1 recorded sale in MK40 4LU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bedford is £329,830 in June 2026, up 4.4% year on year.
MK40 4LU
Queens Park · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK40 4LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK40
- Postcode sector
- MK40 4
- Latitude
- 52.131234
- Longitude
- -0.482191
- British National Grid easting
- 503,989
- British National Grid northing
- 249,188
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Queens Park · E05014510
- Parish or community
- E43000273
- Westminster constituency
- Bedford · E14001084
- Output area
- E00088534
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 013D · E01017538
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 013 · E02003628
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 MK40
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Wells Ltd, Havelock Street, Bedford, MK40 4LU | 29 December 2022 | £18,474,844 |
| Charles Wells Ltd, Havelock Street, Bedford, MK40 4LU | 4 October 2020 | £22,457,255 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 11
- 535 m
St John's School
Academy special converter
- 703 m
Queen's Park Academy
Academy converter
- 796 m
Peter Pan Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,273
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,858
- Anti social behaviour 727
- Shoplifting 607
- Public order 586
- Other theft 456
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK40 4 residents
- 17,674
Age bands in MK40 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 24.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.5%
4,273 residents
2,091 residents
5,966 residents
3,672 residents
1,676 residents
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
10
within 5 km
ASHBURNHAM ROAD SURGERY
8 ASHBURNHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 1DS
ODS code E81615
600 m
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
774 m
LINDEN ROAD SURGERY
13 LINDEN ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2DQ
ODS code E81060
1.4 km
LONDON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
1.6 km
KING STREET SURGERY
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
1.7 km
THE DE PARYS GROUP
ENHANCED SERVICES CENTRE, BEDFORD HEALTH VILLAGE, 3 KIMBOLTON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2NT
ODS code E81037
1.9 km
GOLDINGTON AVENUE SURGERY
85 GOLDINGTON AVENUE, BEDFORD, MK40 3DB
ODS code E81047
2.3 km
PUTNOE MEDICAL CENTRE PARTNERSHIP
93 QUEENS DRIVE, BEDFORD, MK41 9JE
ODS code E81029
3.5 km
PRIORY MEDICAL CENTRE
48 THE GLEBE, CLAPHAM, BEDFORD, MK41 6GA
ODS code E81049
4.3 km
BEDOC HEALTHCARE
UNIT 16, STEPHENSON COURT, FRASER ROAD, BEDFORD, MK44 3WJ
ODS code Y06153
4.4 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lawrence Street
BCT · Queens Park
- 0.1 miles
Havelock Street
BCT · Queens Park
- 0.1 miles
Coventry Road
BCT · Queens Park
- 0.2 miles
Old Ford End Road
BCT · Queens Park
- 0.2 miles
Westbourne Gardens
BCT · Queens Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 013D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,135 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 11 secondary schools. St John's School is the nearest published school at 535 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,273 published events cover 12 months, averaging 606.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,858 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.